Posted on 08/24/2019 7:17:25 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
>>What happened was that Dr. Ball asserted a truth defense. He argued that the hockey stick was a deliberate fraud, something that could be proved if one had access to the data and calculations, in particular the R2 regression analysis, underlying it. Mann refused to produce these documents. He was ordered to produce them by the court and given a deadline. He still refused to produce them, so the court dismissed his case.
It’s not science if you are unwilling to show your work at how you reached your conclusion. It is political and a falsehood.
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As Don Rickles might say, "Michael Mann is a hockey puck."
Hide the decline.
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