From his textbook “Evolutionary Dynamics: Exploring The Equations of Life.” In the last sentence of the preface, after a couple dozen acknowledgements that are literally just a list of names, he has one last special thanks that gets its own paragraph:
“I thank Jeffrey Epstein for many ideas and for letting me participate in his passionate pursuit of knowledge in all its forms”
Email Source: EFTA00984937
Harvard Places Math Professor Martin Nowak on Paid Administrative Leave Over Epstein Ties: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/2/25/nowak-leave-epstein/
Dumb LIBRULS! Can’t even RAPE CHILDREN anymore without you Throwing a Fit!
-Your Republican Family!
Oh no, I get paid for NOT WORKING.
the horror
the horror
the horror
i have learned my lesson
p.s. in the USA, most employees can be fired at ANY time, for any reason, you don’t have to be found guilty, you can even be really good at your job and a great employee. It doesn’t matter.
“in all its forms”
[ vomits violently ]
Well I am sure Harvard benefited from all the money he brought to the department via Epstein. So the only way Harvard can come clean is to donate a similar amount of money to independent charities that fight against child slavery, human trafficking etc.
Btw, here is the full context for the email:
Why would you torture your own spy?
The plot makes no sense.
I’m a generally forgiving and understanding person but it’s hard to argue these people shouldn’t simply be shot.
knowledge in all its forms… gross
Harvard punishes child rapists with a paid vacation?
Administrative Leave starts when a formal investigation begins. You’re basically calling for Chapter 10 of a book to be over when Chapter 1 barely started.
In other words, your question amounts to:
“An investigation started? Shouldn’t it be over before it began?”
No, that’s not how investigations work.
Same old story, but still due their rights and process
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Nowak#Relationship_with_Jeffrey_Epstein
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Sandusky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Nassar
https://www.propublica.org/article/columbia-obgyn-sexually-assaulted-patients-for-20-years
Now, as Devil’s Advocate arguing against you and me, Harvard could choose to drop him at the mere hint of an accusation. You don’t have a right to a job and not getting fired without proven cause in any state but I want to say Montana? The rest are “Right to Work.”
Back on Team “Give them a second for crying out loud,” we’re talking about Harvard, allegedly one of the best colleges in the world. We can expect them to do right by probably investigating this properly, and we’d hope any employer we’d ever work for would bother to take more than a femtosecond to figure out if there’s evidence supporting an accusation against us.
Obviously a lot of countries do have Big R “Rights” as far as labor goes, but the US is not one of them.
Punishing people for things you can’t know they did means hurting people to gratify your feelings. Which is exactly what they did to make you feel that way. So…how does that work?
It was just a little statutory torture. I don’t see what the problem is.
Statutorture? Sorry, can’t help a good wordsmush
It’s a delightful portmanteau.
Delightmanteau, if you will.
Bruh, you can’t portmanteau a portmanteau. That’s like dividing by zero.
Except for bromance, bruh, that’s a portmanbro
I feel seen and appreciated. Thank you.
he hasn’t been investigated yet
What in the French fried fuck, he gave a fucking shoutout to Epstein in the dedication of his textbook…?
Epstein sought like minded assholes in all forms of power, including the academy.
Not to be that guy, but Epstein wasn’t always known to be the bad guy to the general public, and this professor might not have known about the not public stuff he was doing. I haven’t read the article though, so maybe not.
Edit: read the article, Harvard only put the guy on leave because everything became public with the release of the Epstein files. It seems to be that this professor was in on it, and Harvard had taken action against him before but lifted the sanctions because of reasons.
The title image literally quotes him asking “did you torture her”
That’s Epstein asking Nowak
Ah true, but still a good example to show that Nowak should have known that Epstein had a screw loose.
It’s a good example to show that Nowak was torturing women and girls
Who are spies captured on missions?
It’s a good example to show the commenters on lemmy lack reading comprehension & grasp of hyperbole & banter.
Someone does.
yeah…fuck that guy.
The book was published in October 2006.
In May 2006, Palm Beach police filed a probable cause affidavit that Epstein should be charged with four counts of unlawful sex with minors and one count of sexual abuse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein#Alleged_trafficking_ring_and_blackmail_tapes
So, um…
Maybe the draft was from before May and they didn’t change it? lol.
You’d think someone who was good buddies with Epstein would know about his legal troubles. If he were smart, he’d have been demanding his publisher let him change that dedication after he found out what Epstein was charged with.
That would be more true if he met Epstein couple times but this guy seemingly was very close with him. At this point he should be considered a collaborator in his crimes.
You are that guy man right in your own special way you are that guy
That’s your issue and not the email from Epstein asking if he “tortured her”?
…how is that your takeaway from my comment?
Of course that’s entirely heinous. I was just remarking on the fact that the guy fucking put Epstein in the dedication of his textbook on top of that. It’s just an extra layer of gratuitous, gleeful evil that just beggars belief.
I love how shitty people get paid vacations for being shitty.
If you just fire someone who can afford an attorney without going through the proper process, you’re opening your organization up to a lawsuit
He got the jeevacations 💀💀
At this moment I’d out for administrative leave for all persons involved with Epstein.
It’s better than zero consequences.
Beheading would be better, ofc
Massaschusetts is an at-will state. Was “rich pedophile” added as a protected class at some point or why does does he get a paid vacation for this?
He certainly has tenure:
He may have an employment contract in place which gives additional protections. It’s much more likely for a Harvard professor than your average worker.
From Wiktionary:
knowledge: (archaic or law) Sexual intimacy or intercourse (now usually in phrase carnal knowledge). [from 15th c.]
These people need to be put underneath the school.
Yes, I sound “barbaric” and we’re a society of laws and all that, but it seems we’re obviously not. This information was just sat on, fucking disgusting people.
The united states has not been a society of laws since at least 2020, and anyone telling you otherwise is either blind, stupid, lying, or some combination of the three
(I count the supreme court overturning settled law and all branches of government abetting treason as the actual final point of breakdown of the rule of law in this country)
Anyone telling you the US was a society of laws before 2020 was a white cishet middle or upper class male.
I would still say it was a country of laws, but that is not the same thing as a country of justice.
Laws for thee to bind Laws for me to be free. -the oligarchs
Precisely. Wilhoit’s Law
A lot of working class bootlickers will argue with you.
really impressed with the constant stream of high profile people that knew this was coming, having seen countless other epstein associates fall… but still just stayed in their public high profile roles.
like… you could have got out ahead of this… or better yet faded into obscurity, changed your name and move to SE asia… but nope.
guess if you are fucked in the head enough to associate with pedo’s you are fucked in the head enough to put up with this 🤷
you could have got out ahead of this… or better yet faded into obscurity, changed your name and move to SE asia… but nope.
Why would he? The worst thing that has happened to him is that he’s getting a paid vacation.
Yet. There are dozens other who resigned (or were forced to resign) their jobs.
Oh noooooo, forced to resign, you say!?
At the end of their careers with a golden parachute. Brutal.
Pretty sure they have social connections they don’t want to cut. Like e.g. friends or… you know… a family.
Fucking gross
paid administrative leave
We disapprove of your paedophilia, and to demonstrate that we wanted to give you lots of money and no work commitments to keep you tied to one place.
