Elizabeth Picciuto

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”

Many of the scientists Jeffrey Epstein courted were already well-established and well-funded. So why didn’t they all just say no? Science talked with three who did just that.

Here’s how Epstein approached them, and why they refused to have anything to do with him. ⬇️ https://scim.ag/40qbXnv

Read the first point as “much easier for me to never listen to again” lol

I’ve always thought that framing trans youth health care issues as “should doctors and parents be free to determine what’s best for their patients/kids” would be a much more appealing way to say it. (didn’t read Morris yet)

Not as uniquely talented. Possibly not as interpersonally awful??

I apologize; this could have been phrased more politely.

How the fuck is a war of choice noble?

I would watch this musical

Ok this justification, which I’m going to out on a limb and say is also not true, is so much worse. bsky.app/profile/dore...

I think another reason is the pre-emptive war thing, bc it makes this much less a war crime.

This is absolutely going to be what sticks. Meanwhile none of them behaved in any way like they were dragged unwillingly. Or even said this until today. And for maybe the 378th time, the admin that purports to fight antisemitism will increase it. bsky.app/profile/pear...

At least seven of these are major red flags

Arrested development “but it might work for us” meme

Oh I know!

It is!

I never got that far in the books, but iirc it’s not an immediate success in the show either.

Handwashing, pasteurization.

The show Outlander, which involves a time traveler who isa doctor from mid-20th century to mid-18th century, has a few good ones of these. Three I remember are a syringe with needle (using a snake’s tooth), penicillin, and peanut butter.

Yes

Could be!

I love your mom

Exactly

While Bibi can and does jerk Trump around, I don’t believe for a second the Trump admin was an unwilling rube here. I assume Rubio and Johnson are saying this so that they can pretend it was a preemptive attack and save a tiny bit of face internationally.

What do we think of the show Industry?

Is there a common cream that prevents cancer for which that’s a normal side effect?

Like I like Ridley Scott! And that was jaw-dropping.

Napoleon was terrible! But to me, Bridgerton and the Great are both deliberately flouting history, whereas both Gilded Age and Napoleon try and fail.

Everybody on Twitter loves to crap on Bluesky but very few of them actually spend any time here. It’s just a fantasy Bluesky that simply is its most annoying poster. Matt Y is one of the exceptions; he puts in the work here to get his Bluesky battle stories to share.

Oh I loved the Great lol.

Wyoming has fewer people than the other 49 states combined

Oh you gotta watch then!

What you call horror is an instantiation of our beautiful national drive to let no possible taste go untasted. I think it is beautiful, and I might even try the Cinnamon Toast Crunch one.

Sorry you have to go through the worry but it’s good to know about the prognosis