Sentences with phrase «lawsuit against scientists»

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ESCR scientists are mounting a furious political assault against the lawsuit, currently back in Royce Lamberth's court urging that human embryonic stem cell research continue to be funded by the Feds, hoping to pressure the judge to see it their way.

But on Facebook, where news of the lawsuit was initially posted Tuesday, Mann said the lawsuit was part of «a battle» to assist climate scientists in the fight against those who attack their work.

Last year the tiny Havasupai tribe of northern Arizona filed a $ 50 million lawsuit against Arizona State University and its scientists over a long - term project that looked for genes contributing to diabetes.

But Deer's investigation - nominated in February 2011 for two British Press Awards - discovered that, while Wakefield held himself out to be a dispassionate scientist, two years before the Lancet paper was published - and before any of the 12 children were even referred to the hospital - he had been hired to attack MMR by a lawyer, Richard Barr: a jobbing solicitor in the small eastern English town of King's Lynn, who hoped to raise a speculative class action lawsuit against drug companies which manufactured the triple shot.

Spooky CIA Conspiracy Art Is Actually True — Anyone dubious about Garrett Pruter's installation at Armory Week's Spring Break outlining the CIA's alleged 1953 murder of Frank Olson, a scientist who became unsettled by the government's secret biological - warfare atrocities he witnessed in Project Artichoke, should check out this article about a new lawsuit that Olson's family has filed against the CIA.

The lawsuit, filed Monday in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, argued that the two conservative outlets and two writers named in the suit, Rand Simberg and Mark Steyn, «maliciously accused (Mann) of academic fraud, the most fundamental defamation that can be levied against a scientist and a professor.»

WUWT featured guest commentary by Tim Ball, who said that the recent dismissal of a lawsuit brought against him by climate scientist Andrew Weaver was «a victory for free speech and a blow against the use of the law to silence people.»

The group came together in response to increasing legal attacks on climate scientists and the immediate need to help defray the legal costs of an ideologically motivated lawsuit against the University of Virginia and atmospheric scientist Dr. Michael Mann.

in which I was a participant discussing whether skeptic climate scientist Dr S Fred Singer had any grounds for launching a libel / slander lawsuit against people accusing him of being a «liar for hire».

Since Bookbinder is both currently a litigator in a set of global warming lawsuits against industries which supposedly paid «shill scientists» to lie, and was involved in a similar way back in 2010 as the Mother Jones article points out, those are relevant questions to ask.

The essays vary from the bogglingly scientific works by former MIT Meteorology professor, Richard Lindzen, and scientist Willie Soon, to the beloved snark and witticisms of Mark Steyn, who is currently engaged in a lawsuit against Michael Mann, creator of the «hockey stick» graph.

Earlier this year, bankruptcy filings from the country's second - biggest coal company, Arch Coal Inc, revealed funding to a group known mainly for its unsuccessful lawsuit against the climate scientist Michael Mann.

Closer to home, a lawsuit filed by 21 youth plaintiffs (including Kelsey Juliana) and world - renowned climate scientist James Hansen on behalf of future generations against the U.S. government cleared an important hurdle in November 2016 when federal judge Ann Aiken rejected the government and fossil fuel industries» motion to dismiss the case.

He is well known for advocating for climate lawsuits against energy companies, including a profile in New Scientist profile titled, «I want to show the courts who's to blame for climate change.»