| "This is a good move for any institution." MIT banned accepting donations from Epstein, so MIT disagrees with you. "They had no part in advertising any good will gained by Epstein." Years ago I heard a lecture by a famous British computer scientist. The UK had some of the early computers, but they weren't known to the public - Univac got the fame. As a young man he asked one of his seniors why. The response was "Those who needed to know, knew." To make the statement "no part", we must assume that Ito never told anyone else about the contributions, even in private, to "those who needed to know." Further, the claim isn't specifically that Ito participated in the advertising, but rather that MIT was used to "launder his image" simply by accepting the money. The claims are backed by pointing to articles like the now-deleted Huffington Post article archived at http://archive.is/hJxT3 from 2017 where Epstein is praised for his private funding of scientists: > “I have helped scientists for 20 years and I don’t really believe that you can say you fully understand a particular problem, unless your ideas can be tested against solid evidence,” Jeffery said. “But to tackle those problem you need resources, and if you have them the results can be marvellous. For example, in one simple and elegant equation, mathematics managed to describe the whole motion of the planets that alluded men for ages.” "where was the due diligence of those that reported on him?" It was obstructed through money and political contacts. These include reputation laundering methods, as described here, paying of witnesses (eg, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/12/jeffrey-epst... ) and smear campaigns against those who tried to report it (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/12/jeffrey-epst... regarding a 2015 claim). |