The Free Speech Trial of the Century
The Ann & Phelim Scoop
The Unreported Story Society
4.7 • 556 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to the Ann and Phelim Scoop. We're in still in Washington, DC covering week three of the Mark Steyn defamation trial. As you might recall, Climate activist Michael Mann is suing Steyn for calling his hockey stick graph a fraud, and Mann is close to wrapping up his case. We’re in the courtroom every day bringing you the most exciting and dramatic parts of the trial through verbatim reenactments on our daily podcast: Climate Change on Trial.
If you haven’t listened, you need to now. The reviews are in and people are loving it. We are flying up the podcast popularity charts, currently in the top 10 science podcasts worldwide. It seems people really love the truth. So, do yourself a favor and find the podcast by going to https://climatechangeontrial.com, or by searching “Climate Change on Trial” on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. On today’s show, we're bringing you the latest episode of the Free Speech trial of the century.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Anne and Philem Scoop. I'm Anne McElhenney. |
| 0:07.7 | And I'm Phelan McAleher. |
| 0:08.9 | The Mark Stein defamation trial is now in its third week and we're still in the courtroom every day. |
| 0:13.7 | Yes, we're in Chile, D.C. Chile by name, Chile by nature. That makes no sense at all. |
| 0:19.5 | Zero sense. |
| 0:24.9 | Climate scientist Michael Mann, the one suing Stein for calling his hockey stick graph, |
| 0:30.2 | a fraud, is close to wrapping his case. All our attention is focused on this case. So today we're bringing you the latest episode of climate change on trial. So climate change on trial, |
| 0:35.0 | as you probably know, because you're getting the emails, is our podcast where we take the most exciting parts of the trial, the most dramatic events and clashes, and reenact them and put them out on a daily podcast. |
| 0:48.3 | At one stage, we were the number six top science podcast on the planet, so it's been incredibly successful so do yourself a |
| 0:56.0 | favor go over to climate change on trial and listen to all the back episodes but we're |
| 1:00.6 | going to give you the latest episode that everyone else is getting today as part of |
| 1:04.4 | this Alan Philem's scoop podcast have a listen now we're going to go straight into it |
| 1:09.0 | we're sure you're going to love it. |
| 1:19.4 | Hello and welcome to climate change on trial. I'm Anne McElheny. And I'm Phila McAlea. |
| 1:24.5 | This is a daily podcast from inside the DC defamation trial of writer and broadcaster Mark Stein. |
| 1:29.3 | Stein has been sued for defamation by climate scientist Professor Michael Mann. Stein described Mann's famous hockey stick graph as a fraud. Man is also suing writer Rand Simberg, who made similar comments. |
| 1:37.3 | We're presenting the podcast in a very special way by having actors reenact court transcripts verbatim, |
| 1:43.3 | so you get the most exciting exchanges |
| 1:45.4 | from the court every day. |
| 1:47.4 | So welcome to climate change on trial. |
| 1:50.1 | Day nine. |
| 1:51.5 | Strawman. |
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