{"id":440,"date":"2006-08-02T23:16:28","date_gmt":"2006-08-03T03:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=440"},"modified":"2019-07-09T11:05:53","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T15:05:53","slug":"nobel-prize-winning-orgiasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=440","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Prize Winning Orgiasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DealBreaker, which is described as &#8220;an online business tabloid and Wall Street gossip blog&#8221;, has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dealbreaker.com\/2006\/08\/epstein-update-nobel-prize-wide-shut\">story<\/a> about supposed Jeffrey Epstein parties &#8220;in which Nobel prize winners and various wealthy folks were all surrounded by young, &#8216;nude eastern european girls, frolicking with them, and then proceeding into one big orgy party.'&#8221; The story refers hopefully to the idea that this might have something to do with the physics symposium in St. Thomas funded and organized by Epstein that was mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=428\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>:  When I wrote this blog posting last night, it was purely based on the posting at DealBreaker, which appeared to be a silly fantasy, based I assumed on some highly exaggerated version of something that happened involving consenting adults at an Epstein party. The idea of Gross-Wilczek-&#8216;t Hooft-Hawking participating in an orgy at the conference Epstein sponsored was obviously a joke, although perhaps a bit of a tasteless one. I was completely unaware of the serious accusations against Epstein and of the fact that charges have been filed against him involving his sexual behavior. Given this context which I didn&#8217;t know about, the joke isn&#8217;t funny.<\/p>\n<p>Epstein has been exceptionally generous to the math and physics community over the years.  He&#8217;s entitled to the presumption of innocence and I don&#8217;t think this blog is an appropriate place for discussion of his case.  So I&#8217;m shutting off further comments on this posting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DealBreaker, which is described as &#8220;an online business tabloid and Wall Street gossip blog&#8221;, has a story about supposed Jeffrey Epstein parties &#8220;in which Nobel prize winners and various wealthy folks were all surrounded by young, &#8216;nude eastern european girls, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=440\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11105,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions\/11105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}