The two interests of Jeffrey Epstein

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The metastasis of the activity of the financier and sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein , who died of suffocation in a New York jail where he served pretrial detention for alleged child sex trafficking, has a less known impact than politics ( Bill Clinton , Donald Trump ) , but of great interest. It is about science, and more specifically, about the Third Culture movement, grouped around John Brockman , founder of the famous Edge page, and literary agent of Richard Dawkins , Steven Pinker or Daniel Kahneman , among other dozens of notable writers of Science. The first to deal with credit and detail of the matter was Daniel Engber in Slate , in his article The Girls were always close (What it was like to be a scientist in Jeffrey Epstein's circle ). The first lines of the article describe with inspired laconism the two interests that Epstein confessed to an old friend: "Science and pussy." The second interest gave him serious problems in 2008 when he spent more than a year in the Palm Beach jail for trying to prostitute a minor.

The case starts one of the first inquisitions, in this case by bad companies, a specific crime that criminal codes are taking too long to recognize. Epstein's lawyer, Alan Dershowitz , asked Pinker, his friend and colleague at Harvard, for a linguistic expertise as he had done once in a while. This crime is added to two others: traveling with Epstein (and Dawkins and Dennett and Brockman and many others) to a TED California talk, in 2002, or appearing in a photo of the Origins project presentation, directed by physicist Lawrence Krauss and financed by Epstein, in 2014. The pack has been enough with these facts to bark that it is no longer surprising that Pinker said in his books, with obvious self-justifying spirit !, that the rape had to do with sex. To put it with the words of the director of Quillette , Claire Lehmann : "Now they chase Pinker because they have photographed him with Epstein and because he previously made the common sense observation that rape has something to do with sex. What a shame." .

The accusations to physicist Lawrence Krauss - who defended Epstein when he was convicted and who accepted that he would finance his projects years later - are different: some women accuse him of inappropriate behaviors and words. This year he retired prematurely from the University of Arizona, because it was already impossible to continue doing his job there. Marvin Minsky , pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, who died three years ago, has been added to the list: a woman has declared before the judge that in 2001, when he was 17, he was forced [sic] to have sex with him in the Epstein's house in the Virgin Islands. Joichi Ito , director of the MIT Media Lab, has apologized for accepting money from Epstein in 2013. And has pledged to raise it and donate it to non-profit organizations. The last among the darkened brights is John Brockman. And it has been dragged by one of its authors, Evgeny Morozov , who has just published an article in New Republic . It must be said, before describing it, that the reason why Brockman has Morozov in his stable must be that of President Johnson , so commented these months about the Psoe and Podemos pacts: "I prefer that the Indian be within the store pissing out, that was pissing in. " Morozov, of which I tried to read The Disappointment of the Internet , is a purely apocalyptic and paranoid young man, a kind of unscientific troll, and therefore antagonistic to the Third Culture. Brockman has paid him advances for four books (two unpublished) and from his article in New Republic - where he shows with satisfaction that he did not want to treat Epstein - it follows that he is very worried about the dirty owner of his money. Not surprisingly, and according to Miami Herald calculations, the offender donated more than $ 600,000 to Edge over more than a decade. It must be recognized, however, that the solution Morozov gives to his scruples is creative: he asks Brockman to close Edge but to continue with the Literary Agency. Thus our ashes will not have to return the paste or twist their ethics with the danger that the same thing happens to him as to Epstein's neck.

The correctness of the procedure will be deduced from the described facts. One who does an informal report for a colleague; another that some women - unrelated to Epstein - accuse him of propagating; one more who allegedly had a relationship with a minor who was allegedly forced 18 years ago, and others who accept money from a sex offender for their scientific projects. This money deserves a minimum delay. Let it be known, the dirty one was Epstein and not his money. I want to say that although there is no clarity about the way in which he obtained his money - the owner of Victoria's Secret accused him, for example, of cheating him - there is no record that it came from any sex trafficking. It is also assumed that until 2008, when he was convicted, it was legitimate to accept his money. The question, which applies especially to MIT or the Krauss Origins project - the two relatively recent ones - is when it became legitimate again. If, of course, it can be again and 18 months in jail for inducing a child to prostitution, permanent moral imprisonment cannot be applied. To these crimes it can be added that long before Epstein was prosecuted he invited and had a frequent relationship with many scientists. It is celebrated in 2006 a group of physicists and cosmologists in the Virgin Islands to talk about gravity: Stephen Hawkins , Frank Wilczek and Lisa Randall , among others, all summoned by Krauss. Gravity and lightness! The bunga bunga of the atom. The different origin and character of the facts put on the stake is irrelevant: there are better woods than others, but they all burn.

One thing is missing, although the Times is already there for that. An article from the end of July, with Epstein in jail, but alive, added eugenics to money and sex. This is done millions of times every day in the world, without saying it, because they could imprison you for Nazi, but that the Academy dictionary calmly defines as the "study and application of biological laws aimed at perfecting the human species." The meaning of the Times piece, written on the basis of absurd gossip, is difficult to pinpoint, but Epstein's interest in transhumanism emerges. Although I would say, exactly, Epstein's interest in having one of his Cs help the other. From everything I have read these days about the financier, his unexpected kinship is deduced from those rich people who paid cathedrals to secure Heaven. Disbelieved of Religion, he would pay Science so that his ministers were telling him his most beautiful stories, while continuing to ask them if there was any possibility of not dying, that pleasure and beauty would not cease or at least postpone Its extinction for a while longer.

Until it broke or his neck was broken in a cell. Because I wasn't going out anymore, or maybe because of the smell.

Keep your path blind.

TO.

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