Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and other anti-trans influencers personally benefited from a right-wing academic social group backed by infamous human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, sometimes meeting at his island.

  • dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    this video is related and was pretty good: https://skepchick.org/2026/02/epstein-files-reveal-how-pathetic-richard-dawkins-other-men-are/

    […] back in 2011 I criticized physicist Lawrence Krauss for defending his “friend” Jeffrey Epstein, years after Epstein was revealed to be a pedophile running a sex trafficking ring. Unbeknownst to me at the time, Krauss immediately forwarded my critical emails to Epstein, and they whined about what a mean bitch I was. And then in 2016, Krauss emailed quite a bit with Epstein to get his advice on how to deal with Buzzfeed reporters who were investigating Krauss’s long history of women reporting that he sexually harassed and even assaulted them, because of course he did! Epstein was able to evade justice for years after it was well known he was running an international pedophile ring, so surely he would know how to help Krauss wriggle out of some relatively tame attempted rape accusations, right?

    But in 2011, a few months after my post about Lawrence Krauss defending Jeffrey Epstein, I was on a panel in Ireland with Richard Dawkins called “Communicating Atheism,” in which I talked about some of the crazy, misogynistic hatred I get by being a female atheist in the public eye.

    A few days later on July 2nd, Dawkins posted a comment on PZ Myers’ blog mocking me for complaining about the treatment I get, comparing me to a fictional “Muslima” who isn’t allowed to drive and gets beaten by her husband. Misogynistic AND racist! Fun.

    Unbeknownst to me, the day prior, July 4th 2011, Richard Dawkins reached out to John Brockman with a question. Brockman was a powerful New York literary agent who ran Edge.org, which was bankrolled by Jeffrey Epstein. Brockman served as a connection between Epstein and all the various scientists and public intellectuals Epstein wanted to meet, and so his name shows up a LOT in these files. Here’s what Brockman looks like, in a photo taken of him along with Steven Pinker, Daniel C. Dennett, Katinka Matson, and, oh, Richard Dawkins from one time they flew on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane together.

    Brockman, naturally, immediately forwarded the letter to Jeffrey Epstein, which is how I can now read it. What interesting timing! Three months after Lawrence Krauss alerted Jeffrey Epstein to my evil machinations, Dawkins has decided to seek out information so that he might debunk my reporting that Epstein is a pedophile, just a few days after he posted an incredibly racist and sexist comment and was getting dragged for it. And before I had even commented on it!

    Dawkins is mentioned in a lot of other files, but it’s all things like Epstein talking about hanging out with him and Krauss talking about getting him to the island, but obviously we already knew Dawkins knew and hung out with Epstein because there are photos. These guys didn’t care about leaving evidence because, as I mentioned in the previous video, they thought raping little girls was a normal thing that rich men are just allowed to do. And they were right, in a way.

    • Silic0n_Alph4@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 days ago

      Oh my god… or lack thereof.

      I was reading a lot of atheist blogs way back when, trying to figure it all out, when the elevator incident brought the whole thing crashing down. I wasn’t interested in following the mud-slinging so left those blogs behind.

      Now it turns out that fucking Epstein was involved??? Unbelievable. Is there anything that man didn’t ruin?