[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by The Fonz

NSFW!

https://twitter.com/user/status/2026658491180446162

There was a recent story about a Canadian Physicist who also stepped down from his role because of Epstein involvement.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/investigates...iles-9.7087789

A highly regarded theoretical physicist is stepping away from the Ontario institute he helped found, after his ties to the late American sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were revealed in recently released files.

Lee Smolin, an American Canadian professor of physics and philosophy, has "agreed to pause his working relationship" with the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ont., according to an email on Thursday from Perimeter's executive director, Marcela Carena.

Smolin was a founding faculty member of the independent research centre, which is known around the world for pioneering work in quantum theory and got much of its initial funding from BlackBerry co-founder Mike Lazaridis.
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The files show that Smolin continued to correspond with Epstein, and the two made repeated efforts to talk by phone and meet up, until at least 2013 — five years after the latter pleaded guilty in Florida to state charges of soliciting prostitution from a minor and another criminal count. The paper trail appears to contradict Smolin's own account of his relationship with Epstein.
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Previously, Smolin told the Verge in 2019 that he had "not seen Mr. Epstein since a scientific conference in 2007, and I've had no contact with him since 2008" — the year Epstein pleaded guilty to two sex crimes. Earlier this week, he told the Waterloo Record, "My entire relationship with Epstein preceded my moving to Canada and beginning my position with pi [Perimeter Institute] in 2001."

The latest Epstein files appear to contradict these timelines, however, with emails found by CBC News suggesting that contact between Epstein and Smolin lasted until at least 2013.

In one of the earliest messages, from April 2009, Smolin said Epstein "will be missed" at a May 2009 Perimeter Institute conference about the economic crisis. That exchange occurred while Epstein was still in jail for his Florida crimes. (He was routinely allowed out during the day to work from his office.)

In September 2009, Smolin emailed Epstein, at the time on post-jail probation and under house arrest, saying, "I hear that you are out and living there at home. Hope all is well, would love to see you and catch up at some point." Epstein responded that he "would gladly fly [you] to Florida for a weekend with your family," to which Smolin replied, "That's a very nice invitation. Thank you. Let me speak with [his wife] about when would be possible."

Then in February 2010, Epstein messaged, "Any luck in visiting?" Smolin replied five days later, "I would love to visit.… I will come, sorry to have delayed it." The pair appeared to have set a phone date to catch up four days later.
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