{"id":77293,"date":"2021-04-02T05:34:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T10:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77293"},"modified":"2021-03-26T05:56:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T10:56:25","slug":"from-the-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77293","title":{"rendered":"From The Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Seems like forever ago that Michael Mann published his hockey-stick<br>graph, Mary Steyn made fun of it in a column for National Review, and<br>Mann sued for defamation.\u00a0 The case has lingered for eight years in the<br>courts, only now entering the &#8216;discovery&#8217; phase after National Review<br>was dismissed as a defendant.<\/p><p>Mark Steyn was deposed by Michael Mann&#8217;s lawyer.\u00a0 Steyn uploaded the<br>transcript here:\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.steynonline.com\/documents\/11106.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.steynonline.com\/documents\/11106.pdf<\/a><\/p><p>I suppose reading deposition transcripts isn&#8217;t everyone&#8217;s cup of tea,<br>but I found it entertaining.\u00a0 Your mileage may vary.<\/p><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I can&#8217;t imagine those lawyers knew what hit them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems like forever ago that Michael Mann published his hockey-stickgraph, Mary Steyn made fun of it in a column for National Review, andMann sued for defamation.\u00a0 The case has lingered for eight years in thecourts, only now entering the &#8216;discovery&#8217; phase after National Reviewwas dismissed as a defendant. Mark Steyn was deposed by Michael Mann&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,61,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-center-right-altmedia","category-global-warmingcoolingchange","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77303,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77293\/revisions\/77303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}