Ep. 6 | Mann's Money

Climate Change on Trial

Unreported Story Society

Science

4.9 • 942 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Professor Michael Mann continues to give evidence in his defamation case against writer Mark Steyn and scientist Rand Simberg. The soft questions from Mann’s lawyer ended today. Listen as he comes under relentless, but rather charming questioning from Rand Simberg‘s defense.

Mann is adamant that Simberg and Steyn’s statements were false. He says there was no fraud or misconduct in the creation of his Hockey Stick graph, and he refuted allegations that Penn State covered up his alleged scientific malfeasance.

Listen as Professor Mann claims he suffered financial damage, and was treated like a pariah after the articles came out. Among the indignities were mean looks from people in supermarkets

However, Simberg’s lawyer used Mann’s own career evaluations to show his career and income had improved since the articles were published. She made the case that he suffered no damage. She had Mann describe his glamorous life in recent years with trips to the UK, Canada, Iceland, Ireland, and Austria. Then we follow him to film festivals and book tours in between partying with Bill Clinton and Leonardo DiCaprio.

And stay tuned to the end for bombshell revelation about who is funding Michael Mann’s 12-year legal odyssey.

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0:00.0	Hello and I'm Phila Mackelheney.
0:05.0	This is a daily podcast from inside the DC defamation trial of writer and broadcaster Mark Stein. Stein has been sued
0:14.3	for defamation by climate scientist Professor Michael Mann. Stein
0:18.4	described Mann's famous hockey stick graph as a fraud. Man is also suing writer Ran Simburg who made similar comments.
0:26.0	We're representing this podcast in a very special way by having actors reenact verbatim what is said in court so you get the most exciting exchanges from
0:35.1	the courtroom every day in your inbox. So welcome to climate change on trial day
0:40.6	six man's money. So day six Ann. Mm-hmm. Man has given some evidence
0:48.6	Mark Stein has given some evidence that we've had opening statements. We get to see the kind of characters, you know, I suppose they talk about a courtroom being a stage and you know, if if man was an actor and Mark Stein was an actor, I think man he's coming across as the kind of
1:06.7	bumbling scientist, sensitive, nice guy, Tom Hanks, or not Tom Hanks, but you know that kind of nice guy in the movie's sensitive but
1:14.6	bumbling you know scientist and I think it's I think it's working with the jury.
1:18.3	Mm-hmm. He's all very sweet and smiling all the time.
1:20.8	Yes. Stein is playing a combination of sort of a Jack Nicholson and a few good men.
1:25.2	You can handle the truth.
1:26.4	You can handle the truth.
1:28.2	And what else do you say for?
1:29.8	And then a reverse, you know, New Hampshire Yankee in the court of King Arthur you know you know I'm a
1:35.4	foreigner here but I'm going to bring you some truth both approaches are working at
1:40.9	times let's see what the jury gives the Oscar to in the end. Not that
1:46.2	they're actually acting because I'm sure they all believe everything they're saying.
1:51.0	Man's witnesses, I would say, actually all the the witnesses but they've been all man's
1:54.9	witnesses actually that's correct so far they've been rather boring Raymond Bradley
1:58.6	in that the jury got bored but you see I was speaking to someone today and they said you know sometimes
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