Interactions with the Center's corporate sponsors provide Monell scientists with insights into real - world problems, and contribute a different
perspective from that typically seen in
purely academic institutions.
Carvin did forcefully make some First Amendment arguments, but, in doing so, too often failed to observe that various opinions were not only permitted, but reasonable... Because Steyn and National Review have parted ways, Carvin and National Review seem to have been unaware of the long backstory and more or less presented the dispute (from National Review's
perspective) as little more than a
purely academic controversy over the validity of tree rings as a temperature proxy, leaving the judges completely mystified on why Mann, as opposed to any one of hundreds of scientists, was at issue.