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Harvard Places Math Professor Martin Nowak on Paid Administrative Leave Over Epstein Ties (mander.xyz)

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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/

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[-] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 10 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Oh no, I get paid for NOT WORKING.

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.

[-] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 6 points 18 hours ago

Dumb LIBRULS! Can't even RAPE CHILDREN anymore without you Throwing a Fit!

-Your Republican Family!

[-] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

"in all its forms"

[ vomits violently ]

[-] Avicenna@programming.dev 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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:

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

Why would you torture your own spy?

The plot makes no sense.

[-] Avicenna@programming.dev 1 points 9 hours ago

Have you seen the piece of paper Epstein scribbled his ideas on? Lets say he is severly devoid of intelligible ideas.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 231 points 2 days ago

What in the French fried fuck, he gave a fucking shoutout to Epstein in the dedication of his textbook…?

[-] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

Epstein sought like minded assholes in all forms of power, including the academy.

[-] zout@fedia.io 85 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 68 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The title image literally quotes him asking "did you torture her"

[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 48 points 2 days ago

That’s Epstein asking Nowak

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 2 days ago

Ah true, but still a good example to show that Nowak should have known that Epstein had a screw loose.

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[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

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...

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 19 hours ago

Maybe the draft was from before May and they didn't change it? lol.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 17 hours ago

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.

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[-] neuromorph@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago

knowledge in all its forms.... gross

[-] entropiclyclaude@lemmy.wtf 43 points 2 days ago

Harvard punishes child rapists with a paid vacation?

[-] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[-] MunkyNutts@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

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

[-] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

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.

[-] modus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

It was just a little statutory torture. I don't see what the problem is.

[-] Mossheart@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Statutorture? Sorry, can't help a good wordsmush

[-] modus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

It's a delightful portmanteau.

[-] Valorie12@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

Delightmanteau, if you will.

[-] modus@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

Bruh, you can't portmanteau a portmanteau. That's like dividing by zero.

[-] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

Except for bromance, bruh, that’s a portmanbro

[-] Mossheart@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

I feel seen and appreciated. Thank you.

[-] minorkeys@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

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?

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[-] minorkeys@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

I'm a generally forgiving and understanding person but it's hard to argue these people shouldn't simply be shot.

[-] snooggums@piefed.world 158 points 2 days ago

I love how shitty people get paid vacations for being shitty.

[-] protist@mander.xyz 7 points 1 day ago

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

[-] raman_klogius@ani.social 33 points 2 days ago

He got the jeevacations 💀💀

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[-] Gathorall@lemmy.world 62 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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?

[-] nBodyProblem@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

He certainly has tenure:

[-] Arcka@midwest.social 8 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] quoll@lemmy.sdf.org 87 points 2 days ago

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 🤷

[-] OwOarchist@pawb.social 44 points 2 days ago

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.

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[-] lobut@lemmy.ca 78 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 40 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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)

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 43 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Anyone telling you the US was a society of laws before 2020 was a white cishet middle or upper class male.

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[-] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 89 points 2 days ago

Fucking gross

[-] epicshepich@programming.dev 18 points 2 days ago

From Wiktionary:

knowledge: (archaic or law) Sexual intimacy or intercourse (now usually in phrase carnal knowledge). [from 15th c.]

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 20 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml 45 points 2 days ago

Those who join the Epstein class relinquish their humanity.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 27 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

of courses its harvard, these top university often produces Elitist, or some wierd psychopath. the same university that dint want ASIANs in the school, because there is not enough white people there.

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