Mann could be said to be the Jerry Sandusky of climate science, except for instead of molesting children, he has molested and tortured data in service of politicized science that could have dire consequences for the nation and planet.I would have said that this is obviously not legally actionable, but after 12+ years in the courts, Mann can now collect $1 in actual damages and $5000 in punitive damages.
The core of the dispute was about Mann putting two types of data together on one graph, and presenting it as alarming. The connection to Sandusky was that both were affiliated with Penn State University.
I have posted here the opinion that Sandusky never molested anyone, and that Penn State was blameless in the matter. But whether that is true or not, I thought that it was legal to make a colorful analogy.
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If you wish to discredit Mann, Just ask him to publish his 'trick to hide the decline' (his actual methods which he has not published) and then reproduce his hocky stick without cherry picking tree ring growth data which somehow magically allows him to determine temperature, despite no one on earth being able to do this (reproducibility). The man is a quack.
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