A professor at Stanford sues because other scientists disagreed with him

[dead0man]

for $10M!

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someone doesn't know how science works

[Antonio the Sixth]

As someone who's hoping to some day be an academic (I know, fat chance), this is deeply concerning. Hopefully the courts will dismiss the suit clearly enough than no one else will try anything of the like.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

And people keep saying that the future is good.

[Mr. Reactionary]

What are yall ... climate change denying shills for big oil?!?!

[muon2]

Scientists with weakly supported claims are not new. Nor is the use of the media or legal system to further weak claims new. My favorite example was the announcement of cold fusion in 1989 by means of a press conference rather than a scientific conference. By the end of that year many scientists had failed to replicate the experiment and considered the claim bogus. But the public kept talking about it for a decade or more, since they only remembered the media splash, not the negative journal articles. The splash was so big that the DOE had to review the issue again in 2004 to confirm that there was still nothing to the idea.