Opinion | We Don’t Have Time for Climate Misinformation
Opinion | We Don’t Have Time for Climate Misinformation
A jury rules that defamatory attacks on climate scientists have consequences.
It's worth mentioning, they weren't punished for climate misinformation. The consequences were for calling him a child molester and a sex trafficker.
And that libel was part and parcel of their climate misinformation; they were making those claims because they didn't like the hockey stick graph and saw the false accusations as a way to discredit the science.
Right, but they didn't face consequences for making unscientific statements or promoting scientific disinformation. I think they should have, but that's not the justice system we got. The world would be a better place if science denialism was a crime.
They faced consequences for defamatory comparisons to sex criminals. Which is also a crime, and should be a crime. I'm not complaining about that. I just wouldn't count this as a victory for climate science.