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#Harvard

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People (14)

  • Avi Loeb Avi Loeb is Harvard's Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science and head of the Galileo Project, co-founded with Frank Laukien in 2021, and led the 2023 IM1 expedition funded by Charles Hoskinson.
  • B. F. Skinner Harvard behaviorist who received Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology funding and whose operant conditioning research on behavior modification ran parallel to CIA interests in controlling human behavior.
  • Benedict Gross Harvard number theorist and dean of Harvard College who co-proposed the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics with Jeffrey Epstein and in 2013 asked Harvard to resume taking Epstein's money.
  • Debra Black Wife of Leon Black, trustee in the Black family's 2007 restructuring, co-donor of Harvard and Arizona State gifts that Jeffrey Epstein arranged, and holder of accounts that wired Epstein's fees.
  • Drew Faust Historian and president of Harvard from 2007 to 2018 who barred Jeffrey Epstein's gifts no later than November 2008 without recording the decision, while donors Epstein introduced gave 9.5 million dollars.
  • Eugene Jhong Eugene Jhong holds Harvard A.B. and J.D. degrees and a Stanford master's in computer science, and is listed on the Galileo Project's Philanthropic Advisory Board.
  • Frank Laukien Frank Laukien has been chairman, president and chief executive of Bruker Corporation since February 1991 and is its largest stockholder; he co-founded the Galileo Project with Avi Loeb in 2021.
  • George Church George Church is a Harvard Medical School geneticist who took Jeffrey Epstein's money from 2005 to 2007, received Epstein-introduced Leon Black gifts, and in 2014 formed the investment vehicle Georgarage with Epstein.
  • Henry Murray Harvard psychology professor who created the OSS assessment system for selecting clandestine operatives, which became a landmark in personality evaluation and prefigured the CIA's behavioral profiling programs.
  • John E. Mack Harvard psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize biographer of T. E. Lawrence who from 1990 studied abduction reports, founded PEER in 1993, and was reviewed by a Harvard committee in 1994 and 1995.
  • Martin Nowak Martin Nowak is a Harvard mathematical biologist who directed the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, founded with a 2003 Jeffrey Epstein gift, and was sanctioned in 2021 and placed on leave in 2026 over Epstein.
  • Richard Herrnstein Harvard psychologist whose 1971 Atlantic article argued that social standing would come to rest on inherited intelligence, and who co-wrote The Bell Curve with Charles Murray before dying in September 1994.
  • Steven Pinker Steven Pinker is a Harvard psychologist and linguist whose 2007 reading of the federal enticement statute was cited by Jeffrey Epstein's lawyers to federal prosecutors; he says he acted unpaid and now regrets it.
  • Timothy Leary Timothy Leary was the Harvard psychologist turned psychedelic evangelist who ran the Harvard Psilocybin Project, coined 'turn on, tune in, drop out,' operated under documented CIA surveillance while drawing on research networks whose funding traced to MKULTRA, and in his final decades became a champion of personal computers, space migration, and life extension.

Organizations (4)

  • Galileo Project The Galileo Project is a Harvard-hosted, privately funded research program announced July 26, 2021 by Avi Loeb and Frank Laukien to search for extraterrestrial technological artifacts and study unidentified aerial phenomena with its own instruments.
  • John Templeton Foundation Foundation established in 1987 by Sir John Templeton that granted Harvard's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics 1.5 million dollars in 2015 after receiving a false Jeffrey Epstein matching-funds letter.
  • Program for Evolutionary Dynamics Harvard research center founded in 2003 with a 6.5 million dollar Jeffrey Epstein gift, directed by Martin Nowak, where Epstein kept an office and keycard access until 2018; Harvard closed it in 2021.
  • Program for Extraordinary Experience Research Abduction research and support program founded in 1993 by John E. Mack under the Center for Psychology and Social Change, begun on a Human Potential Foundation grant and, per the Mack Institute, Laurance Rockefeller funding.