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Interview with Virginia Heffernan on Edge, the dangers of Scientism, & Culture Wars

Decoding the Gurus

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How Did John Brockman Launder His Money?

When i went to meet with brachman, he did a little bit of the stuff that we know epstean or harvey weinstein did. Made it very clear that he didn't have very many women, but he needed them because he was always criticised for not having menand women. Some of the teachers at edge worked before, notably, they were fired for sexual assault. And he also was able to start to launder his ill gotten gains and start trapping, you know, with his methods of blackmail or whatever else he did. He laundering some of his money through these contributions to harvard and m i t where some of the professors at edge worked.

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