On February 8, 2024, a jury unanimously decided in favor of climate scientist Michael Mann in his 12-year defamation battle against Rand Simberg and Mark Steyn, who had compared him to convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky in 2012 blog posts. The jury found Simberg and Steyn guilty of defamation …
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On October 22, 2012, climate scientist Michael Mann filed a defamation lawsuit against Rand Simberg (a former scholar at the Competitive Enterprise Institute) and Mark Steyn (who wrote for National Review), after they published blog posts comparing him to Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State …
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On May 4, 2012, the Heartland Institute erected a digital billboard on the Eisenhower Expressway near Chicago featuring Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber) with text reading “I still believe in global warming. Do you?” The billboard remained live for 24 hours before widespread …