After Tyrone Hayes said that a chemical was harmful, its maker pursued him

Re:After Tyrone Hayes said that a chemical was harmful, its ... by sliverstorm on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @06:39PM (#7180988)

Making someone look foolish is not libel.

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Re:After Tyrone Hayes said that a chemical was harmful, its ... by dredmorbius on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @02:43AM (#7182446)

Conspiracy to defame would also be tortuous, and in the context of this case, possibly criminal.

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Re:After Tyrone Hayes said that a chemical was harmful, its ... by lutusp on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @02:56AM (#7182487)

> Defamation of character is tortuous [sic]

No, it's tortious.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tortuous : "full of twists, turns, or bends; twisting, winding, or crooked: a tortuous path."

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tortious : " having the nature of or involving a tort; wrongful."

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Re:After Tyrone Hayes said that a chemical was harmful, its ... by dredmorbius on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @01:51PM (#7185858)

Thanks, yes.

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Re:After Tyrone Hayes said that a chemical was harmful, its ... by sliverstorm on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @11:00AM (#7184465)

Setting people up to make fools of themselves is not defamation though. Nor is factual spin.

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Re:After Tyrone Hayes said that a chemical was harmful, its ... by dredmorbius on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @03:12PM (#7186461)

Setting people up to make fools of themselves

In a conspiracy, for an ulterior motive, on a large scale, you wanna argue that in front of a jury?

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Re:After Tyrone Hayes said that a chemical was harmful, its ... by sukuriant on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @07:17PM (#7181154)

Yes, but what about:

3. putting together a team of over 100 people, including 25 professors, to act as "spokespeople on Hayes"

5. getting paid scientists to write op-eds accusing Hayes of being a "junk scientist"

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