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.»
Despite the recent accusations of fraud
levied against climate
scientists, respondents continue to place a high level of trust in
scientists as sources of climate change information.