Not to be that guy, but Epstein wasn't always known to be the bad guy to the general public, and this professor might not have known about the not public stuff he was doing. I haven't read the article though, so maybe not.

Edit: read the article, Harvard only put the guy on leave because everything became public with the release of the Epstein files. It seems to be that this professor was in on it, and Harvard had taken action against him before but lifted the sanctions because of reasons.

He got the jeevacations 💀💀

If you just fire someone who can afford an attorney without going through the proper process, you're opening your organization up to a lawsuit

At this moment I'd out for administrative leave for all persons involved with Epstein.

It's better than zero consequences.

Beheading would be better, ofc

you could have got out ahead of this… or better yet faded into obscurity, changed your name and move to SE asia… but nope.

Why would he? The worst thing that has happened to him is that he's getting a paid vacation.

Pretty sure they have social connections they don't want to cut. Like e.g. friends or... you know.. a family.

The united states has not been a society of laws since at least 2020, and anyone telling you otherwise is either blind, stupid, lying, or some combination of the three

(I count the supreme court overturning settled law and all branches of government abetting treason as the actual final point of breakdown of the rule of law in this country)

He may have an employment contract in place which gives additional protections. It's much more likely for a Harvard professor than your average worker.

Administrative Leave starts when a formal investigation begins. You're basically calling for Chapter 10 of a book to be over when Chapter 1 barely started.

In other words, your question amounts to:

"An investigation started? Shouldn't it be over before it began?"

No, that's not how investigations work.

It was just a little statutory torture. I don't see what the problem is.

Punishing people for things you can't know they did means hurting people to gratify your feelings. Which is exactly what they did to make you feel that way. So...how does that work?

he hasn't been investigated yet

epstein entrenched himself with movers and shakers across multiple industries. of course he would look to harvard to collect intellectuals and industry/academic leaders

I don't think any of what he did was stupid. He wanted to do evil shit to children, he did evil shit to children. The shout-out was a boast, a dogwhistle to other monsters like him, and a thank you to the person who helped him torture children. To him, he was giggling behind his hand because he was getting away with it. He still hasn't faced any kind of criminal penalty, and it doesn't seem likely he will, if the American prosecutions for this are any indicator.

General intelligence is fake

*child rape slave trafficker