Comment Re:Stop trying to win this politically (Score 1) 786
"Quote from the article " This is a classic ad hominem attack, consisting of innuendo and obfuscation, often focusing on irrelevant items, whose net effect is to direct attention away from the merits of an argument and instead to the character of the person making it. "
At least that's the way Mann phrases it (without providing citations as to what instance "this" he's referring to). His opponents would probably point at numerous criticisms of Mann's work, and of Mann's occasionally disgraceful behaviour, as reason to doubt Mann -- not his "character" in the abstract.