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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.

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[–] Silic0n_Alph4@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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?

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Silic0n_Alph4@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Here’s a short and fairly neutral summary: https://pharyngula.fandom.com/wiki/Rebecca_Watson

What followed was an intense and brutal blog war.