Hinderaker’s Outright Lying / Advancing Dementia…

In an update / comment (largely unrelated to a Scott Johnson post) John just wrote:

“…Abraham Wyner testified as an expert witness on behalf of the defendants in the Michael Mann v. Mark Steyn case. We saw his testimony when we were in D.C. for the trial. Wyner presented a statistical analysis that showed that Mann’s famous hockey stick graph was, in fact, fraudulent. His analysis was persuasive and Wyner was a great witness, but unfortunately neither his testimony nor the other evidence presented by defendants was enough to [stave off a $1 million libel loss]. At least, not with a D.C. jury…”

Well, son… that’s because Steyn knowingly, and falsely so — called Dr. Mann a pedophile — repeatedly. The actual libel per se didn’t go to any climate science disagreement. None at all. [Some expert eh, Scott?]

But John read the DC verdict, and commented on it last month — in real time… so he well knows he’s lying, in the pull quote, above.

Yawn. Out.