Reminder that Pinker was super close to Epstein.

From the NYT review of the book:

But there was something else —something that bears more directly on his thesis that rationality has been such a benevolent force for progress. In 2007 Pinker lent his professional expertise to Epstein's legal defense team, which argued that Epstein hadn't violated a federal statute prohibiting the use of the internet to lure minors across state lines for sexual abuse. "According to Dr. Pinker, that is the sole rational reading in the English language," the affidavit stated — a sterling example of a thinking process so confidently pristine that it can give unthinking cover to the grotesque.

Or how about the testimony of one of the trafficked victims - Virginia Giuffre - Epstein pimped to clients, including Pinker:

Two weeks later, as if Jeffrey was trying to lighten my spirits, he told me I would be going to his island to meet a new client He is a Harvard Professor, named Stephen . I would be spending two days with him showing him around the island, dining with him, and treating him to a massage whenever he wanted. Without Jeffrey even verbalizing the need to have sex with him, he told me to keep him happy like I had my first client. I packed my suitcase with island apparel, and kissed T.J good-bye, who had at least offered me a warm embrace upon the news of my miscarriage but none other than that knowing it wasn't his. Stephen was a quirky little man with white hair and a mad scientist look about him. We arrived separately and I greeted him when one of the housekeepers picked him up from the airport and arrived by boat, instead of helicopter as Jeffrey and Ghislane often arrive on. We made our acquaintances and he looked as if he was tripping over himself with words, obviously delighted with his company and location for the weekend. I showed him around as Jeffrey had asked and took him on an adventurous quad bike ride around the small curvy paths, leading the way and letting loose my hair, doing something that gave me a natural high instead of the prescription one.

The fact that anyone takes this pedo grifter's phone calls, never mind taking him seriously, is all you need to know about how sick the ruling class and media culture is.