Having faced considerable ridicule about his "hockey stick" graph, which indicated a rapid increase in climate change, climate scientist Michael Mann's defamation suit against National Review Online and the Competitive Enterprise Institute is going forward. ("Climate scientist wins an early victory against a long-running smear campaign")
The art of smearing others has risen to new levels, given the ease of communication made available through the internet and social media. Let's hope a damper can be put on mistruths that are so rapidly propagated on the web.
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