Posted on 01/31/2024 12:18:51 PM PST by Twotone
The action of making something obscure, unclear, or unintelligible.
The Plaintiff's case hinges on making you, or rather the jury, believe — nay, they have to prove — that Mark and Rand knowingly falsified information and had an intent to ruin Mann's reputation. How are Mann's lawyers trying to do that? By making data falsification, fabrication, and every other journalistic standard, such as plagerism (which has been in the news of late, if we recall correctly), the exclusive domain of academia. These really smart people are the only ones who are educated enough to say what is right and what is wrong.
The Plaintiff and his legal team are trying to argue there is an inherent difference between an editor of an academic journal or scientific standards and say, the editor of National Review or the many academics who proudly work for the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
And the reason for this difference, besides, of course, being smarter than the rest of us common folk? You guessed it, their political belief system. We aren't discussing the Second Law of Thermodynamics here, which incidentally is still debated in some circles. It's about (any) criticism of a graph that purports to demonstrate climate change, created by a climate change "communicator" — Mann's own word, not ours.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
Man o man, what is humor. Mann wouldn’t know if it burned him in the behind 1.5 degrees celcius over a hundred years.
Academia is infested with academics.
ACADEMIC (ak-uh-DEM-ik): An individual educated beyond his intelligence who is unwilling or unable to create or provide anything of value to others, who while hiding out in a think-tank, college or university pontificates and expects to be paid for it, usually from public funds.
TERM LIMITS, NOW!.......I agree!!!
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1.a person who paid good money to be fed real data and or b.s. and refuses to discern between the two and refuses to admit being swindled cuz of pride
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2. an auto-regurgitator
Eschew obfuscation
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