I'm going to finish off here with kind of the story that just keeps on telling itself,

and that's the Epstein files.

In order to paint this picture, I want to start here with really Jeffrey Epstein's

confidant friend who's sitting in a jail cell right now, Gisling Maxwell, her father, Robert

Maxwell.

He basically is responsible for the for-profit,

controlled peer review research journal system that we've lived under for decades, you know,

the stuff that settles science. So this is the article that kind of lays this out really

to give you a quick hit on this. It's titled, Is the Staggering Profitable Business of Scientific Publishing Bad for Science? It says, no one was more

transformative and ingenious than Robert Maxwell, who turned scientific journals into a spectacular

money-making machine that bankrolled his rise in British society. It says scientists occasionally

questioned the fairness of this hugely profitable

business to which they supplied their work for free. But it was university librarians who

first realized the trap in the market Maxwell had created. The librarians used university funds

to buy journals on behalf of scientists. Basically what was happening is universities were

forced by these journals. These journals were extremely inflated in their price.

They were blown their budget on this, but then the scientists basically had to kneel before

this because in order to get things published, they had to jump into this system and it became

this self-perpetuating monolith.

And he was sitting there reaping all the profits.

So now I want to bring that to present day because these are monopolistic men and that's

Robert Maxwell connected clearly through Jislaine to Jeffrey Epstein, but then we have

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