The Epstein files just keep prompting more resignations in the academic world, including Harvard's Larry Summers and Columbia's Richard Axel.
Much of the attention related to the ongoing fallout of the release of the Epstein files has understandably been on political figures such as Donald Trump Larry Summers, and Columbia scientist and Nobel Prize winner Dr.
Richard Axel. They join several other prominent academics to resign this month after the release of the files.and role as the director of Harvard’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the end of the academic year, after saying in the fall that he was “stepping back from public life” amid revelations related to his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Summers has not been formally accused of criminal wrongdoing, but he garnered waves of criticism after emails released by the House Oversight Committee showed that he had sought Epstein’s advice about pursuing a romantic relationship with a person he described as his own mentee, just before Epstein’s 2019 arrest. He’d evenwith his wife, Elisa New, during the couple’s honeymoon in 2005. Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren , herself a former Harvard professor, had called on the universitywhile “stepping back” from public life. “I take full responsibility for my misguided decision to continue communicating with Mr. Epstein.”Nobel laureate Richard Axel, 79, has been a Columbia professor for 53 years and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2004 with Linda B. Buck for research related to odorant receptors and the human olfactory system. Currently, he was teaching and serving as the co-director of Columbia’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, which employs more than a dozen researchers. Axelfrom that post and from the university to focus on his own research, while also resigning as an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Like Summers, Axel is not directly accused of wrongdoing in the Epstein files, but they detail a long relationship between the two stretching all the way back to the 1980s. According to, Axel was “a frequent guest of Mr. Epstein’s at his Manhattan home,” and “he also served as an intermediary on Mr. Epstein’s behalf with Columbia officials involved in admissions and philanthropy.” The same article details how Dr. Axelto help associates of Epstein gain admission to Columbia, and previously referred to Epstein as “extremely smart and probing,” among other things.announcing that he would be resigning, Dr. Axel referred to his long association with Epstein as a “serious error in judgement” and said he was sorry for “compromising the trust of my friends, students and colleagues.” “What has emerged about Epstein’s appalling conduct, the harm that he has caused to so many people, makes my association with him all the more painful and inexcusable,” reads the statement. Columbia University said in its own statement that it agreed with the decision for Dr. Axel to step down, given the “continued fallout from the release of the D.O.J. files.” Nobel Prize-winning brain scientist, Richard Axel, resigned from his post co-leading Columbia University’s Mind Brain Behavioral Institute because of his long ties to #EpsteinSummers and Axel join other, recent resignations or suspensions tied to the release of the Epstein files in the academic world, including the suspension of Yale professor computer science professor David Gelernter, and the resignation of School of Visual Arts curator and director David A. Ross. Gelernter is one of the few figures mentioned in the Epstein files who more or less didn’t disavow anything–despite sending a female Yale senior Epstein’s way and describing her as a “v small good-looking blonde” in their communications,that he was merely trying to help the woman get the job by taking advantage of Epstein’s well-known interest in women. Gelernter also scheduled visits with Epstein in various locales. In 2009, a year after Epstein pleaded guilty to two felony prostitution charges in Florida and was given a sweetheart deal, Gelernter wrote to literary agent John Brockman about Epstein in glowing terms.in December 2009. “I’ve never talked to a more interesting guy or one w/ more all-around horsepower & faster acceleration.”was revealed. He had been the chair of the MFA art practice program. In one exchange with Epstein in 2009, the financier and pedophile reportedlycalled “Statutory” that he said would feature “girls and boys ages 14-25 where they look nothing like their true ages.” Around the same time, Ross told Epstein in an email that “I’m still proud to call you a friend.” It increasingly seems as if no corner of the entertainment, real estate, political, financial or academic worlds has been left untouched by the revelations found in the Epstein files. It all begs the question: Will we everHappy Year of the Fire Horse! Baby Girls Born This Year Are Destined to Defy Societal Norms & Ruin Men
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