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The statute Pinker was paid-commenting on was even specifically about how you entice children for prostitution

‘The smart, the rich, the powerful’: Epstein associated with Silicon Valley elite years after his release from prison Billionaires and intellectuals attended events with the disgraced financier years after he served time for sex offense, files reveal

Scan your intellectual events for women who might object to inviting a sex offender

Epstein replied: “last year, at the last minute the women said no epstein. . am i going to have the same issue again…”

“In terms of women, I don’t see a problem with this list,”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Never forget Epstein’s little helpers – the powerful men who knew about his crimes, and helped him out anyway | Marina Hyde I’m sorry, but this is not just a political scandal. Time to refocus on the horrific mistreatment of women and girls, and the role of these ghouls, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Never forget Epstein’s little helpers – the powerful men who knew about his crimes, and helped him out anyway

Marina Hyde nails it.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I’m really curious to hear how Pinker parses his words to try to defend himself from this.

(Sadly, he’ll likely just try to ignore it and hope it goes away. That is, unless there’s pressure to have him address the issue.)

Why did Jeffrey Epstein cultivate famous scientists? The Epstein files revive questions of whether the disgraced financier sought to merely cultivate famous scientists, or to shape science itself

The Epstein files revive questions of whether the disgraced financier sought to merely cultivate famous scientists, or to shape science itself

Epstein doc saying paid Pinker

Epstein doc saying Pinker assisted

Pinker statement re Epstein

New Epstein files say that Steven Pinker was paid $10,000 to help Epstein’s defense (even though Pinker previously said he wasn't paid).

I’m so glad the NYT put Trump’s “nationalize voting” remarks into a big, scary headline— these are exactly the kind of remarks the press used to treat as hyperbole, rhetoric, not worth commenting on

This made me weepy

The thing that a lot of these guys have in common is that for them science is about personal brand-building and advancement of the self. Their norms serve their status competition, not a greater good.

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

"the hysteria that has developed around the abuse of women"

Jeffrey Epstein’s Intellectual Enabler How did Epstein meet so many luminaries in the worlds of science and technology? It all might trace back to literary agent John Brockman.

You can google the edge network, and their activities. He’s agent for Pinker, Dawkins, Dennett and many others:

newrepublic.com/article/1548...

Yes! and it makes sense why there were so few women in that group

For that group, science is personal brand-building and advancement of the self — thinness of principles is like grease.

Same but then I started noticing that there were very few women in it

I was curious about the fact that there were seemingly no women scientists mentioned, even of equivalent caliber, and came across what is, seemingly, beef between Epstein and Brockman debating whether "the women are all weak" or not

Brockman is founder of “The Edge network”, a citation ring, and long time agent/broker to many academics you know

Don’t miss Nicholas Christakis desperate, fawning, flattering an already-convicted child rapist…

To: Jeffrey Epsteinljeevacation@gmail.com] From: Christakis, Nicholas Sent: Thur 9/26/2013 1:56:03 AM Subject: Re: Thanks You are hilarious. My sense of humor. Yiddishe kop N Please excuse brevity and orthography and this fine print -- since this has been sent from my iPhone. Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD http://www.HumanNatureLab.net On Sep 25, 2013, at 9:40 PM, "Jeffrey Epstein" <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: great first date On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Christakis, Nicholas < wrote: Dear Jeff I've been on the road and in meetings literally since leaving your house [sic] yesterday light and just got to DC. I greatly enjoyed the company and the setting (amazing of course) and the many good questions, especially yours. Josh was terrific; bu you already know that. Best regards, Nicholas Please excuse brevity and orthography and this fine print -- since this has been sent from my iPhone. Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD http://www.HumanNatureLab.net

From: Sent: Christakis, Nicholas Jeffrey Epstein Sun 9/8/2013 6:22:14 PM Subject: Re: meeting again no back until the 21, but lets definitely schedule after On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Christakis, Nicholas wrote: dear jeff: thanks for the kind words. i enjoyed meeting you; i had not known you were connected to john brockman, but i should have guessed! as luck would have it, i am slated to be in NYC this coming thursday for a dinner and could meet before that, any time between 2 and 5, if that happened to work for you. otherwise, i could surely come back again within the coming weeks. my lab has a number of foci at present: 1) the evolutionary biology and genetics of social networks and social interaction; 2) the experimental exploration, using online tools, of network structure and function in humans (how does network structure affect phenomena like cooperation, innovation, health, etc.); and 3) randomized controlled trials in the developing world of network 'targeting algorithms' aimed at enhancing spillover effects, so as to facilitate population-level behavior change by identifying and targeting influential people. let me share three papers with you (one unpublished) that flesh out some of our work (specifically [1] and [2] above): best, nicholas On Sep 8, 2013, at 3:41 AM 9/8/13, Jeffrey

From: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com> To: "Christakis, Nicholas" = Subject: Re: introduction -- follow-up Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 12:26:20 +0000 great I will be back in sept. lets try then On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 6:12 AM, Christakis, Nicholas < nicholas.christakis@yale.edu> wrote: Dear Jeff: The editor wrote the provocative title, but this NYT Op-Ed from last week captures some of my thoughts about how the social sciences are evolving, and must evolve, given developments in the natural sciences. I thought I would share it: I don't want to swamp you with links because I know you are terribly busy, but if you want more nuance than 800 words allows, 1 make the argument at greater length here (in the first 8 minutes): http://www.edge.org/conversation/a-21st-century-change-to-social-science Also, as I mentioned in the piece, various labs, including my own, have continued to spearhead the move to use Amazon Mechanical Turk workers as a pool of research subjects in diverse projects; for example, here is a recent PNAS paper that shows how the topology of interactions between members of a group can be affirmatively manipulated to elicit desirable properties (such as cooperation): http://humannaturelab.net/wp= content/themes/human-nature-lab/media/pdf/publications/articles/126.pdf We have also been developing ways that AMT workers can be used as a ready pool of subjects for real-time pedagogic purposes, with novel software (as alluded to in the piece). I'd still welcome the chance to meet with you (and Linda?) to discuss some of our ideas, if you have the time and interest, and I can easily come into NYC since I have now moved to New Haven.

I guess the best-available defense to this sort of thing—lots of friendly emails and visits with someone recently convicted of procuring a child for the purposes of prostitution, I mean—is something like “He seemed to have lots of money and connections and I would have liked a little piece of that”

The way men like these pucker and grovel around money is a core problem

Omg this is wild. Hauser getting advice from Epstein about crisis management.

For academics still paying attention, T
the names "Nowak" and "Kosslyn" appear several thousand times in the new Epstein files dump. You can search at www.justice.gov/epstein

Here’s Duke behavioral economist Dan Ariely asking Jeffrey Epstein for “the name and email of the redhead that was here with you.” This is four years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution.

It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall.

But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

Maybe he will say it was a woodpecker

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

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US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Even more success, now at NIH. Our collective efforts worked 🇺🇸🧪

www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Moving forward 🇺🇸. “When asked if the president would sign the bill, the White House directed NBC News to a statement earlier this month from the White House Office of Management and Budget. The statement said that the administration supported the bill.” 🧪🏠 NO MAJOR CUTS

Congress Is Reversing Trump’s Steep Budget Cuts to Science

Our collective efforts to save science are working.

Gift article
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