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Scientists who took money from Epstein laundered his reputation, promoted his perverse agenda and even helped him meet schoolgirls. Now some have reinvented themselves as free speech champions.
When Jeffrey Epstein gave huge donations to cryogenic research he insisted on his death he didn’t just want his brain deep-frozen. No prizes for guessing what other organ he wanted preserved.
This was an apt summary of the sex offender’s outlook on science. On the one hand his charitable donations to researchers were intended to suggest Epstein was driven by profound curiosity. As was the sprinkling of his guest lists with famous scientists like Stephen Hawking.
Yet his morbid sexual obsessions were never far from the surface. If he lost interest in a scientific discussion Epstein would loudly demand “What has that got to do with pussy?!”
This is the remarkable story of how a cadre of leading scientists supped with a notorious sex offender. And how their shared contempt for women and girls lubricated their relationships with Epstein and skewed their moral judgment.