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Virginia Heffernan: Edge, Jeffrey Epstein, & the Intellectual Dark Web

Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation

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The Millionaires Dinners

The relationship between academics and scientists, tec people and millionaires is just super, superinteresting to me. It's like the osgers of nerdsaya, yesasker of nerds? It's the oskers of nerds. And it's nerds that have real money in the hour, ya. I mean, allan dershwitz is there that man. Even lawyers for some of the litigants in the epstein case believes that those people were wing manning for epstein while they were there. A lot of them draw on leary's work to make this point about their intellectual superiority. There's also a study by some scientists at dartmouth who were found to be

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