Last week’s blistering courtroom rebuke of U.S. climate scientist Michael Mann – author of the infamous “hockey stick” temperature graph – is about far more than the US$1 million in legal costs awarded to the media outlets Mann was suing for defamation, asserts David Manney at PJ Media. With a judge ruling that Mann and his legal team lied to the court, Mann’s broader credibility has plummeted – something Manney terms a “cultural moment” that should encourage more scientists and journalists to question the scientific basis for global warming theory.
Racial Quotas by Algorithm
Allum Bokhari, writing in The American Conservative, illuminates a Colorado state bill claiming to create “a shield against ‘algorithmic discrimination’” that would force AI companies to generate outputs based on government-imposed racial, and other identity-based, quotas. As with past variants of reverse discrimination, asserts Bokhari, Colorado’s AI bill amounts to thinly disguised leftist ideology aimed at institutionalizing the very harm it claims to ameliorate.
