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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    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?

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    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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      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.

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    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.

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      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)

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        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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    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 🤷

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      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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      Pretty sure they have social connections they don’t want to cut. Like e.g. friends or… you know… a family.

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    Brings some perspective into the meaning of the word “smart”, people can be smart and stupid at the same time!

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      I don’t think any of what he did was stupid. He wanted to do evil shit to children, he did evil shit to children. The shout-out was a boast, a dogwhistle to other monsters like him, and a thank you to the person who helped him torture children. To him, he was giggling behind his hand because he was getting away with it. He still hasn’t faced any kind of criminal penalty, and it doesn’t seem likely he will, if the American prosecutions for this are any indicator.

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    Guess the current federal admin will somehow now find even more reasons to freeze Harvard’s federal funding! Totally legitimate reasons. /s