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Michael Mann Resigns Amid Controversy Over Charlie Kirk Posts
10/3/2025
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- Michael Mann, Vice Provost for Climate Science at University of Pennsylvania, resigned after 11 months, citing neutrality-policy conflicts.
- Resignation followed criticism from Senator Dave McCormick over Mann's posts about Charlie Kirk.
- Mann called Kirk the “head of Trump's Hitler Youth” in a post that he later deleted.
- Mann said the deletion targeted praise of Kirk, not Kirk himself, amid conservative backlash.
