[neverdem]

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[TChad]

Mann is attempting to legally punish any attempt to "question his intellect and reasoning" — that's from the DC Superior Court, which preposterously backed his argument...

"Preposterously" is correct. This is not a fair court.

So this would put Mann is a bind: if he wins against Steyn, he establishes a precedent for his own loss to Curry.

I doubt that precedent counts for much in political show trials.

[expat1000]

In another thread, someone posed the question of why Mann seems to have very deep pockets and is unafraid of the financial costs associated with losing this type of lawsuit.

There is strong evidence that Soros is behind him.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/24/fighting-the-mann/

[GOPJ]

But that's not the main issue. The main issue in the suit is Mann's appeal to authority in the first place. He cites the various government investigations as reasons why, as the DC Superior Court put it, "to question [Mann's] intellect and reasoning is tantamount to a [libelous] accusation of fraud." Mann's goal is to make it a legally punishable offense to question a scientist's honesty or even his thinking method.

So many creepy totalitarians... so little time...