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Three scientists who said no to Jeffrey Epstein explain how

Ellsworth Toohey
Mar 03, 2026
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In 2010, a mysterious emissary took 29-year-old MIT computer scientist Scott Aaronson to lunch and pitched him on funding for DNA cryptography research. Instead of Googling the benefactor, Aaronson asked his mother. She emailed back: “Be careful not to get sucked up in the slime-machine going on here… Since you d…

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