I thank you, but your source…ewwww
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Here’s some more details on the story:
“In 2005, Harvard admitted Epstein as a Visiting Fellow in Harvard’s Psychology Department for the 2005-2006 academic year,” the report notes before explaining. “Visiting Fellow is a title awarded to an independent re-searcher registered with the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences as a graduate research student.”
Epstein, however, had absolutely no qualifications for such a distinguished position. What he did have was a longstanding relationship with Professor Stephen Kosslyn , the Chair of the Psychology Department — buoyed by $200,000 in money that Epstein had lavished on the psychologist who “recommended Epstein’s admission as a Visiting Fellow.”
“The largest of his gifts, a $6.5 million gift made in 2003, established Harvard’s Program for Evolutionary Dynamics (“PED”), led by Professor Martin Nowak ,” the report continues. “Epstein’s $6.5 million gift to PED enabled Harvard and Professor Nowak to create and pay for a separate research facility for PED in a Harvard Square office building leased from a private owner.”
Nowak’s relationship with Epstein didn’t end there.
In 2015, Nowak worked with Epstein to conceal Epstein’s prior gifts in order secure grant money from a separate foundation.
(That foundation was the Templeton Foundation, which funds pretty interesting work on the intersection of science and religion and is strongly and genuinely dedicated to promoting things like moral character and ethical behavior. I’m sure they’re delighted at being connected with a moral monster like Epstein. /s)
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