They need to beat Louisville this week first.

There’s a difference between reporting about something and publishing it publicly. If Gawker had just reported on the sextape then Hulk Hogan would have had no case against them. The problem is that they decided to publish the sex tape for views and then gave the middle finger to a judge’s order to take it down. Then…

That was a good game and it came down to the wire.

You might be interested in a book called Merchants of Doubt. It goes over how certain corporate interests have been turning the public against scientific findings since the 1950s. It also has a tons of sources for its claims and lists them at the end of each chapter.