When National Review founder William F. Buckley Jr. was alive, the American Civil Liberties Union was a frequent target of his barbs. Once he even devoted an episode of “Firing Line” to a debate on the proposition “Resolved: The ACLU is full of baloney.”
So give the ACLU credit for rising above policy differences. When a combative climatologist, Penn State’s Michael Mann, filed a defamation lawsuit in 2012 against National Review, Mark Steyn, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Rand Simberg, the conservative magazine...
opinion wjmcgurn Courts should stay out of scientific issues. They are not competent But, they can assess if the principles of modern scientific method have been applied. In Mann's case: no. He refuses to publish his data If that's acceptable, anyone can pull whatever from their hat
opinion wjmcgurn That is the tradition of the US Supreme Court
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