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Dr Tim Ball appears to have won the long legal jihad launched against him by climate mullah Michael E Mann. Because his court follows "the English rule" as opposed to the stinkeroo "American rule", the loser (Mann) will have to pay costs - which is as it should be after a decade of entirely meritless litigation. But what if there's a more effective way to silence your critics? Say, by proving scientifically that they should be expelled from polite society. Nature, founded in 1869, is generally regarded (with Science) as one of the two most prestigious peer-reviewed journals in the world. Like many great nineteenth-century institutions its distinguished past lends an undeserved imprimatur to its meretricious and ever more politicized present. But that's just my opinion and it hasn't been peer-reviewed in a peer-reviewed journal, so pay no attention to it. Here is Nature's latest "scientific paper"... |
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Mark's Week in ReviewA Se'nnight of Steyn, August 19-25
Mark will be starting the new week on America's Number One radio show. We hope you'll tune in! Meanwhile, in case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked to Steyn... Mark at the MoviesScarlet Street
In this week's Mark at the Movies, guest columnist Kathy Shaidle explores the subtle touches and edge-of-your-seat twists of Fritz Lang's detectiveless film noir, Scarlet Street. Steyn on FoxWar of Words
On Thursday's edition of "Tucker Carlson Tonight" Mark joined Tucker to consider one of the biggest issues of our time - the left's remorseless assault on language, and the right's general capitulation on the issue. Tucker set up the topic: Then Mark weighed in... Steyn on the AirThe Homophobic Chicken has Landed
Mark and John Oakley on President Trump's plans to buy Greenland from Denmark, the United Kingdom's generous gift of Jihadi Jack to Canada, and much more: Politics & Current AffairsState Funeral For A Glacier
In this week's Laura's Links: Iceland mourns a glacier, anti-Semitic Leftist ice queens continue to make hay out of a travel ban from Israel, and a transgender cricket player melts away real women's chances of victory. Steyn on FoxOn the Warren Path
Mark and Tucker on Elizabeth Warren's efforts to rehabilitate herself with her formerly fellow Indians: Steyn on FoxPlanted Joke
After a week of guest-hosting, and a brief reign as the King of Cable, Mark returns to just plain guesting... Steyn's Song of the WeekSomething
A George Harrison song that eventually escaped the elevator The Mark Steyn ShowPopulism and Globalism... at Sea
Michele Bachmann and John O'Sullivan join Mark to survey the global scene Katz & Blaze TV vs SteynSteyn Wins ...Again
Litigious losers Cary Katz and Blaze/CRTV strike out yet again Katz & Blaze TV vs SteynKatz & Blaze TV vs Steyn: A Cut-Out'n'Keep Guide
Cary Katz's four floppo Steyn suits (and counting) The War on Free SpeechThe Vertigo at the Top of the Stick
Michael E Mann's defamation suit against me enters its Mann vs SteynFootball and Hockey
The Corner post that launched a lawsuit... |
Climate Change: The FactsContext Before Facts
In this episode, the late Robert Carter considers "the scientific context" Climate Change: The FactsSun Shunned
Professor Willie Soon on how the sun's impact on climate change has been ignored by the alarmists. Climate Change: The FactsPower and Politics Over Science
Our new audio serialization continues with a great episode by Richard Lindzen on "global warming, models and language" Climate Change: The FactsModel Failure
In today's episode of our audio series on climate change: the failure of climate models – and the failures of the politicians who embraced them Climate Change: The FactsThe Fraud of Climate Catastrophism
More from Ian Plimer on the science and politics of climate change Climate Change: The FactsThe Science and Politics of Climate Change
The second episode of our audio serialization of Climate Change: The Facts: Professor Ian Plimer on the scientific method's coopting by ideologues. Climate Change: The FactsAll Talk... No Warming
This is the first episode of our new audio serialization - Climate Change: The Facts, on the real story of global warming. A Clubman's NotesIncurable Veracity on the River Thames
Welcome to Mark's audio serialization of Jerome K Jerome's comic classic Three Men in a Boat The Mark Steyn Weekend ShowThe Snows of Yesteryear
On the TownA Bushel and a Peck of Heart and Soul
The Songs of Frank Loesser with Mark and his guests George Abbott, Dorothée Berryman, Cy Feuer, Monique Fauteux, Burton Lane, Jessica Martin, Siân Phillips and Jule Styne Steyn's Song of the WeekThere's A Kind of Hush (All Over the World) with Peter Noone and Herman's Hermits
A live Song of the Week with the irrepressible Peter Noone and Herman's Hermits and a great pop song by Les Reed and Geoff Stephens: |
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The latest entry in Mark's anthology of video poetry - with medieval murderers, an exhumation to inspire Dracula, and an image that's echoed down the centuries
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