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It meant putting other sponsors, faculty, and researcher assistants in the same room as a convicted sex offender for several weeks of the year. That was precis
by HarryHirsch 7y ago
It meant putting other sponsors, faculty, and researcher assistants in the same room as a convicted sex offender for several weeks of the year.
That was precisely the point. Epstein gave the money and bought legitimacy with it. Everyone in the room knew they were having dinner with a pervert and slaveholder, but he was a philanthropic slaveholder.
- roenxi 7y agoThe number of people harmed was very small, the number of people who benefit from money -> research is very large, and the people accepting the money have no connection to what he did. There is a long history of science being involved in stuff that was considered morally reprehensible and it turned out really well for generations of people. Medicine has a history of grave robbers, Chemistry has some real monsters in the closet, the Physicists may as well have blood on their hands for what they worked to enable and why not throw in Turing? He is unusual in that the standards changed so history remembers him kindly. Lucky man. I don't see why the standard should change with Epstein and suddenly moral outrage trumps enabling academics. Let the law handle it, and let the universities take in money.
- woah 7y agoWhy is Turing lucky?
- Gibbon1 7y ago'He's not a criminal he wears nice suits and has soft hands'