Salon.com > Michael Mann http://www.salon.com Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:24:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 “Climategate” scientist sues National Review for libel http://www.salon.com/2012/10/24/climategate_scientist_sues_national_review_for_libel/ http://www.salon.com/2012/10/24/climategate_scientist_sues_national_review_for_libel/#comments Wed, 24 Oct 2012 19:10:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13050681 Michael Mann, a climatologist and professor at Penn State, is suing the National Review for defamation, in connection with the trumped-up "Climategate" controversy that began in 2009.

Mann filed his complaint against the National Review Inc., the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and journalists Rand Simberg and Mark Steyn for articles in July that the complaint says made "utterly false and defamatory statements against Dr. Mann -- accusing him of academic fraud and comparing him to a convicted child molester, Jerry Sandusky, the disgraced former football coach at Pennsylvania State University."

In one article in question, Steyn compared the Penn State investigation to its investigation of Jerry Sandusky. "And, as with Sandusky and [former football coach Joe] Paterno, the college declined to find one of its star names guilty of any wrongdoing," he wrote.

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