A defamation lawsuit may kill National Review

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22. Mann is refusing to settle. He wants this to go to court and be heard. I think he wants case law and

public awareness. I've read that most plaintiff's in his position are discouraged by the discovery process, but Mann has been through that with the government so he knows and isn't concerned.
This is a little more cut and dry than a regular slander case because Steyn wrote that he manipulated data. That is a pretty cut and dry argument for rebuttal. I'm going to love if this goes to court and the outcome is that the data for Mann's findings on climate change are accurate and based on solid scientific evidence.
The oil companies will make sure Steyn never works again. Poetic justice.