Epstein's Emails Show How "Race Science" Gets Normalized, And It's Not NewEpstein's Emails Show How "Race Science" Gets Normalized, And It's Not New

Mother Jones surfaces a clear through-line in the newly released Epstein emails: hereditarian / genetics framing kept alive inside elite scientific conversation, treated as discussable instead of disqualifying.

This isn't about one billionaire's opinions. It's about institutional mechanics:

Wealth buys access → access rents legitimacy → legitimacy normalizes conversation.

Harvard's own review documents the case study: Epstein gave $9.179M total, including $6.5M that helped establish Harvard's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, and he was granted unusual internal access tied to that relationship.

The released photo trove adds another signal. A small discussion-circle setting with Epstein alongside scientists and political figures doesn't prove coordination. It does show permeability. The kind of room where money, science, and politics can overlap without anyone acknowledging a bright line.

That permeability isn't new. The Pioneer Fund functioned as earlier infrastructure for a similar mechanism: keeping heredity/IQ race-difference research inside "serious" institutional channels long enough for it to feel debatable.

The issue isn't only who was in the room.
It's that the room had no immune system.