Chomsky’s Wikipedia article has a section on his friendship with Epstein. It mentions Chomsky wanting to take his wife to visit Epstein in the Caribbean, which seems an unlikely thing to do if he believed the allegations. But it also sounds like he was was way too dismissive of sexual misconduct allegations in general.
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Biodiversity @mander.xyz Emerging niche clustering results from both competition and predation. (My takeaway: more species can coexist in an ecological niche if they have distinct predators.)
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Epstein apparently fancied himself an intellectual and cultivated contacts in the sciences for their own sake—he was also a major donor to the Santa Fe Institute and seems to have made a favorable impression there.
I think we underestimate the ability of predators like Epstein to appear as something other than they are when it suits them.