Climatologist Michael E. Mann on science, politics and censorship - Technology & Science - CBC News

"Anytime that science and the findings of science have come into conflict with certain powerful vested interests, there's often been an effort by those who see themselves as potentially being at threat by the science to go after the scientists and the science and try to discredit the science," Mann told CBC's George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight.

On the show, Mann discussed his own experiences and also addressed the alleged muzzling of scientists by the federal government.

...Mann likened the situation to the control the Bush administration exerted over its scientists' ability to communicate.

"It appears now that that culture, that ethos has now sort of spread across the border and it's what you're now seeing here in Canada."

Flashback: Email 1335, Nov 2005, Michael "Robust Debate" Mann on the prospect of attending a workshop also attended by a guy who disagrees with him: "If Zorita is in, I am out!'

Flashback: Email 2743, Sept 2009, Michael "Robust Debate" Mann: "So far, we've simply deleted all of the attempts by McIntyre and his minions to draw attention to this at RealClimate."

Flashback: Email 3115: Michael Mann again on refusing to communicate with the "idiots" and "losers" who dare to question Mann's work

Flashback: Email 3874: Mann sends email trashing McKitrick and McIntyre to his "Friends and Colleagues" at the New York Times, Environmental Defense Fund, EPA, and Senator Lieberman's office among others

Flashback: Michael Mann on keeping up with the scientific literature: "I don't read E&E, gives me indigestion"

Flashback: A tip from Michael Mann on how to handle scientific debate: Set up your email server so that it automatically rejects email from people who disagree with you

Tom Nelson: 2003: Michael Mann on what "the community" should do to punish a journal that dared to print dissenting views on the climate hoax

Tom Nelson: Priceless ClimateGate email 682: Tom Wigley tells Michael Mann that his son did a tree ring science fair project (using trees behind NCAR) that invalidated the centerpiece of Mann's work