In today's episode - narrated by Melissa Howes - Mark explains how Michael Mann's "reconstruction" came to be called a "hockey stick".

We will also hear from Dr Hendrik Tennekes, PhD whose description of Mann's behavior as -"a disgrace to the profession" - inspired the name of this book.

As a reminder, Mann first sued Mark and others in 2012. Then, Mann and Mark's codefendants decided to take the Slow Boat to (In)Justice by appealing the immediate appealability of SLAPP rulings all the way to the US Supreme Court. Mark didn't bother with all that procedural nonsense and instead focused on preparing for trial...

Thanks to the generosity of our readers - we were able to hire a researcher and compile these "exhibits" as it were of what scientists - "people with PhD after their names" (as Mann pal Ed Begley Jr. calls them) - actually make of Mann's "hockey stick" graph.

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