American climate scientist Michael Mann wins defamation suit against two bloggers. Michael Mann obtains one million dollars in damages.
An unprecedented judgment described as a “triumph for science” across the Atlantic. In 2012, political analyst Rand Simberg and author Mark Steyn, both far-right, accused the climate scientist of manipulating his research data and compared him to a notorious pedophile. The legal battle, during which the two defendants took refuge behind the principle - sacrosanct in the United States - of freedom of expression, lasted 12 years.