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The attacks came from groups that reject climate science, some funded by the fossil fuel industry. In the midst of these types of attacks — including the hacking of Mann’s and other scientists’ emails by unknown hackers — Penn State, where Mann was then working, opened an investigation into his research. Penn State, as well as the National Science Foundation, found no evidence of scientific misconduct. But a policy analyst and an author wrote that they were not convinced. The trial in D.C. Superior Court involves posts from right-wing author Mark Steyn and policy analyst Rand Simberg. In an online post, Simberg compared Mann to former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky, a convicted child sex abuser. Simberg wrote that Mann was the “Sandusky of climate science,” writing that Mann “molested and tortured data (PDF).” Steyn called Mann’s research fraudulent. Mann sued the two men for defamation. Mann also sued the publishers of the posts, National Review and the Competitive Enterprise Institute, but in 2021, the court ruled they couldn’t be held liable.
In court, Mann has argued that he lost funding and research opportunities. Steyn said in court that if Penn State’s president, Graham Spanier, covered up child sexual assault, why wouldn’t he cover up for Mann’s science. The science in question used ice cores and tree rings to estimate Earth’s past temperatures. “If Graham Spanier is prepared to cover up child rape, week in, week out, year in, year out, why would he be the least bit squeamish about covering up a bit of hanky panky with the tree rings and the ice cores?” Steyn asked the court. Mann and Steyn declined to speak to NPR during the ongoing trial. One of Simberg’s lawyers, Victoria Weatherford, said “inflammatory does not equal defamatory” and that her client is allowed to express his opinion, even if it were wrong. “No matter how offensive or distasteful or heated it is,” Weatherford tells NPR, “that speech is absolutely protected under the First Amendment when it’s said against a public figure, if the person saying it believed that what they said was true.”
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The attacks came from groups that reject climate science, some funded by the fossil fuel industry. In the midst of these types of attacks — including the hacking of Mann’s and other scientists’ emails by unknown hackers — Penn State, where Mann was then working, opened an investigation into his research. Penn State, as well as the National Science Foundation, found no evidence of scientific misconduct. But a policy analyst and an author wrote that they were not convinced. The trial in D.C. Superior Court involves posts from right-wing author Mark Steyn and policy analyst Rand Simberg. In an online post, Simberg compared Mann to former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky, a convicted child sex abuser. Simberg wrote that Mann was the “Sandusky of climate science,” writing that Mann “molested and tortured data (PDF).” Steyn called Mann’s research fraudulent. Mann sued the two men for defamation. Mann also sued the publishers of the posts, National Review and the Competitive Enterprise Institute, but in 2021, the court ruled they couldn’t be held liable.
In court, Mann has argued that he lost funding and research opportunities. Steyn said in court that if Penn State’s president, Graham Spanier, covered up child sexual assault, why wouldn’t he cover up for Mann’s science. The science in question used ice cores and tree rings to estimate Earth’s past temperatures. “If Graham Spanier is prepared to cover up child rape, week in, week out, year in, year out, why would he be the least bit squeamish about covering up a bit of hanky panky with the tree rings and the ice cores?” Steyn asked the court. Mann and Steyn declined to speak to NPR during the ongoing trial. One of Simberg’s lawyers, Victoria Weatherford, said “inflammatory does not equal defamatory” and that her client is allowed to express his opinion, even if it were wrong. “No matter how offensive or distasteful or heated it is,” Weatherford tells NPR, “that speech is absolutely protected under the First Amendment when it’s said against a public figure, if the person saying it believed that what they said was true.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is almost upon us, with less than 24 hours until the latest instalment of Link and Zelda’s adventure finally arrives. But, ahead of getting hands-on with the game, the wait to see what critics have to say about Tears of the Kingdom is finally over.
It comes as absolutely no surprise whatsoever that Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is sweeping critics off their feet so far. Breath of the Wild was in receipt of countless awards back in 2017, including The Game Awards’, Golden Joystick Awards, and GDC’s Game of the Year – which led many folk to declare ToTK as being 2023’s GOTY, long before we’d even caught a real glimpse of the game.
Our own James Billcliffe scored Tears of the Kingdom a 5/5 after having spent plenty of time with the game, but what are the verdicts of other critics? Let’s take a look.
Baillie Gifford, the Edinburgh-based asset management firm long known to have a penchant for pre-IPO tech companies, has reduced its shares in African e-commerce giant Jumia, per the latest 13G/A filing released by the asset manager. According to the filing, Baillie Gifford disclosed ownership of 18.75 million shares in Jumia, representing 13.69% of the company. In […]
Jumia’s investors rethink their stakes — for better and worse by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch
Chris Hemsworth is returning to Netflix next year for Extraction 2, a followup to the big-budget action spectacle released in April. In a behind-the-scenes vignette showed at Netflix’s Tudum 2022 virtual event, Hemsworth and director Sam Hargrave talk about how they’re amping up the stakes for the sequel.
Hargrave jokes that a sequel needs to have twice as much action, and so we get an up-close look at practical effects including car-flipping explosions and stunt work. The centerpiece of this movie is an ambitious new one-shot, according to Hargrave, which involves a helicopter landing atop a moving train. The vignette is also narrated by Hemsworth, featuring a level of dramatic exposition you’d expect from the actor.
The first Extraction included another memorable one-shot action sequence, which lasted 12 minutes in all. Those sequences take a lot of planning and precise timing, but it was such a hit that Hargrave wants to outdo himself this time. The first film reached 99 million homes in its first month, making it one of Netflix’s most popular movies of all time. The writer previously said that the next film will be “very different” than the first.