Accused serial sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein isn’t just a fan of underage girls; he’s also, apparently, a big fan of eugenics — and like most of those into the crackpot science, he believes that he’s packing some superior DNA that needs to be spread far and wide.
In the New York Times today, James B. Stewart reports that Epstein “hoped to seed the human race with his DNA by impregnating women at his vast New Mexico ranch.”
Stewart describes how Epstein used his charm and his money — well, maybe mostly his money — to “insinuate his way into an elite scientific community, thus allowing him to pursue his interests in eugenics and other fringe fields like cryogenics.”
As Stewart notes,
He dangled financing for their pet projects. Some of the scientists said that the prospect of financing blinded them to the seriousness of his sexual transgressions, and even led them to give credence to some of Mr. Epstein’s half-baked scientific musings.
Epstein loved to regale his new friends — including Nobel prize winners and such well-known names as Stephen Hawking and Oliver Sacks — with his crackpot ramblings on such subjects as “atoms [that] behaved like investors in a marketplace” and “a mysterious particle that might trigger the feeling that someone is watching you.”
Gosh, I wonder why he might have been worried about people watching him?
One of Epstein’s favorite topics, apparently, was his idea for a vast baby ranch designed to pump out countless baby Epsteins.
On multiple occasions starting in the early 2000s, Mr. Epstein [reportedly] told scientists and businessmen about his ambitions to use his New Mexico ranch as a base where women would be inseminated with his sperm and would give birth to his babies … .
According to an attendee at one of his dinners,
Mr. Epstein’s goal was to have 20 women at a time impregnated at his 33,000-square-foot Zorro Ranch in a tiny town outside Santa Fe.
Virtual-reality guru Jaron Lanier told Stewart that Epstein seemed to be
using the dinner parties — where some guests were attractive women with impressive academic credentials — to screen candidates to bear [his] children.
So many layers of creepiness here. The last thing this world needs is more Jeffrey Epsteins.
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Between this and the incel slavery post, it might be time to break out that old classic
According to the article Epstein discussed his interest in cryonics and wanted his head and penis to be frozen. I find that I agree with Epstein that his penis should be frozen–the sooner the better.
Well they can’t have been that smart if they were going with Epstein!
Yeah, cause what the world needs is more of that chin.
As I said elsewhere this sounds like a plot from an action adventure novel, which would have ended with the heroes launching a commando raid on Epstein’s ranch to free his sex slaves, one of which would probably be connected in some way to the heroes.
This reminds me both of the Mormon practice of polygamy and of the Nazis’ Lebensborn programme.
Reads entire article.
I just got one thing to say.
Once upon a time I dated a visiting professor, an engineer, who was from a foreign country. During a certain discussion, I mentioned the word “spermicide,” and he was aghast. He hadn’t heard that word before — and the notion horrified him. Kill his sperm? Eww. That was when he revealed his dream: to impregnate women worldwide. Did I mention he was a professor? Yes, I did.
@Mabret
It sounds almost exactly like a privatised version of the Lebensborn project.
But on the bright side, given Epstein’s known predilections, it’s actually still a little less creepy than what seeing the words Epstein and Baby Ranch first lead me to expect.
If I read the whole article, are there practical details on how this fantasy would work out? And do I even want to know those?
Also, I thought “cryogenics” was a legitimate field separate from the crackpot fantasy known as cryopreservation – but apparently these terms are interchangeable?
Yeah, the writer is using the word incorrectly: “cryogenics” is the study of the effect of extreme cold on various materials, “cryonics” is doing the Walt Disney* thing.
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*I know, I know, it’s just an urban legend.
The only explanation I can come up with is that Jeffrey here thinks that his primary duty is to propagate his genes. There are a few other manospherian goons who try to substitute evolution for morality. I suppose because evolution shaped humans it also shapes how humans should behave. Though in reality I think this is just an extreme justification for someone whom has spent so much time and effort pursuing casual sex. The real reason is partly just libido, but mostly a desperate need to be “cool,” and the surest way to be cool and get the respect of your fellow 14 year boys was casual sex. Of course he lacks anything resembling introspection; let alone the ability to admit that maybe his urges are just urges; thus he has to assign cosmic significance to his urges; so he claims that propagating genes is somehow the meaning of life; and then he tries to do so in the most effective and efficient way possible.
Jeffery does realize we have ways of screening for people like him the Hare psychopath checklist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy_Checklist
Brain scans psychopaths have abnormal brains and it shows on the scan
https://psychcentral.com/news/2012/05/11/scans-show-psychopaths-have-brain-abnormalities/38540.html
It’s only a matter of time before we get a genetic test to screen for psychopaths like Jeffery before birth.
I wonder what is his position on abortion? yes unless its his kid? unless the Woman wants child support?
I expect that if Jeffery is confronted about being a psychopath he will rant that the Warrior gene is necessary for society. But the funny thing is Bush 2, Trump, Dick Cheney, Newt Gingrich all avoided the draft.
Sure if you want someone who likes to bully, hurt or even kill people without remorse a psychopath is the guy for the job he will enjoy it.
Psychopaths love danger think they will never get hurt or caught but if they view a situation like the Viet Nam war as a serious threat to their life you can’t make them stay in the army.
I suspect Jeffery will sing like a canary if he ever has reason to think Trump won’t pardon him.
@QuantumInc
I can’t actually be bothered to try and understand his thought process. Can’t imagine it will improve my life in any way.
I’m not getting at you personally, I do know what you mean, and I’ve done it myself – tried to make sense of it psychologically.
I’m just fed up that us, the people who haven’t hurt anyone, are the ones who think we should understand and somehow fix hostile, predatory men while they just happily roll on with their bad selves. They should be the ones fixing themselves but instead it’s somehow left up to all the rest of us to discuss “the problem” – as if the problem is not, in fact, an asshole who thinks women were put on this earth to service whatever fucked-up idea he has pulled out of his ass.
Sorry. It’s been a bad week. I’ve spoken on here about my martial arts practice before – I’ve been training for years, and it’s very important to me. Well, I’ve just found out that my instructor, who I trusted absolutely, has in fact sexually assaulted several of the other female students. I won’t go into details, but let’s just say I have absolutely no doubt he’s done this.
I’m broken-hearted, I’m angry, I have to find a new martial arts school, and most of all I currently have zero tolerance for trying to understand sexual predators. They can sort themselves out and start behaving in a way which befits a civilised society, or they can fuck off.
Oh thank god it’s the other hentai trope.
@Lumipuna:
It’s been a while since I last saw that movie, but as I recall it involved nerve gas and a radar-stealthed space station.
I’m reminded of Count Vormuir, a character in Lois McMaster Bujold’s A Civil Campaign, who arranged to have 118 daughters thanks to uterine replicators and the discarded (so they thought) eggs from unsuspecting patients. I won’t spoil the details of his punishment, but my fellow Miles Vorkosigan fans are hopefully already chuckling at the memory of Gregor’s solution.
That’s a odd word to use to describe rape.
He seems to be basically a Bond villain, only less smart. But the penis-freezing thing is particularly strange. Imagine if cryonics were not a scam, and you could be revived at some point in the future in a healthy new body. Who says “that’s great, but it must have the same old dick”?
Someone who worships his penis.
So… Epstein wanted to kick-start the Tleilaxu…?
Why does this remind me of that crackpot Neom idea that the Saudi royal family have…?
I wonder if any of these eugenics advocates ever noticed that in “survival of the fittest”, “fittest” is determined chiefly by the environment in which a given organism lives in.
Even the Supermen these guys dream of producing are just as likely to go extinct as any other species- all it takes is one sufficiently large meteorite (or runaway global warming triggering some other planet-wide disaster, whichever comes first) and we’ll all end up joining the dinosaurs.
Edit: Oh wait, he’s a transhumanist, which is even more loopy. Why couldn’t he have followed the example of the others in that branch of the lunatic fringe and just wasted his time trying to download his brain into a robot?
The thing I always find strange about eugenicists (and about white nationalists and anti-diversity people in general) is how much they misinterpret evolution and biology. In a species, genetic diversity is considered a good thing, and we are currently seeing the consequences of too small a gene pool with various endangered species. These fools, on the other hand, seem to purposely want to create a bottleneck.
Transhumanism is its own branch of weird. The last thing the world needs is more Jeffrey Epsteins, or one that lives forever as a robot. Not to mention that transhumanism has always had an undercurrent of fascism and eugenics.
@Anonymous
Probably because he hadn’t figured out how to graft his penis onto the robot….