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Michael Manns lawyer says National Review must retract and apologize
By Curtis Brainard
http://www.cjr.org/the_observatory/michael_mann_national_review_m.php
Rand has always been a fringe conspiracy extremist. He used to be a big Hoagland "Face on Mars," Martian temples and pyramids guy, big time into UFOs and Bigfoot as well. This isn't terribly surprising.
By Curtis Brainard
http://www.cjr.org/the_observatory/michael_mann_national_review_m.php
Penn State climate scientist Michael Mann is demanding that National Review retract and apologize for a July 15 post that compared him to Jerry Sandusky, the convicted child molester and former Penn State assistant football coach.
The post in question, by Mark Steyn, accused Mann of academic fraud, dredging up a discredited charge that emerged in 2009 following the leak of emails between Mann and other scientists, which critics claimed were evidence of data manipulation. Despite the fact that almost half a dozen investigations affirmed the integrity of Manns research, Steyn quoted a post from the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) that referred to Manns work as Penn States other scandal,...
...In a letter sent Friday to Scott Budd, National Reviews executive publisher, Manns attorney, John B. Williams, called Steyns allegations defamatory:
Your allegation of academic fraud is false, and was clearly made with the knowledge that it was false . Williams wrote. And further, you draw the insidious comparison between Dr. Mann and Jerry Sandusky, who as you point out, was recently convicted of child molestation. This reference is simply outrageous and clearly subjects your publication to a claim of intentional infliction of emotional distress...
Needless to say, we intend to pursue all appropriate legal remedies on behalf of Dr. Mann....
This is not a bluff, Williams said when asked about Simbergs comment. This is a very strong case. Ive done a fair amount of libel and defamation work. I vet the cases pretty thoroughly before I take them, and I dont bluff. Were going to bring it unless they retract and apologize....
Rand has always been a fringe conspiracy extremist. He used to be a big Hoagland "Face on Mars," Martian temples and pyramids guy, big time into UFOs and Bigfoot as well. This isn't terribly surprising.