‘Flight logs’ are wrong.

And there’s the fact that Pinker flew on Epstein’s jet to a TED conference and a dinner held by John Brockman in Monterrey, California. Note that they give the plane the name “The Lolita Express”, as it’s been dubbed by the media. But Epstein was accused of trafficking in underaged girls and having sex with minors in Florida (where he was convicted), and in New York, New Mexico, and the Virgin Islands, not California. But there’s no flight record that Pinker went to those places on Epstein’s dime, nor visited Epstein’s private island in the Virgin Islands.

Finally, VICE mentions this from an unsealed manuscript by one of the underaged girls trafficked by Epstein:

In an  written by Virginia Giuffre—one of the main survivors of Epstein’s trafficking ring to come forward—Giuffre says she was forced to sleep with a Harvard professor named “Stephen,” his last name redacted, and described him as “a quirky little man with white hair and a mad scientist look about him.” Pinker’s name is spelled “Steven” with a ‘v.’ Another Harvard professor, Stephen Kosslyn, who once taught Pinker, ; Kosslyn is bald, with white hair on the sides of his head. Kosslyn does not appear in any known Epstein flight logs.

Pinker said he is not the “Stephen” in Giuffre’s manuscript and wrote “This was not me. I’ve never set foot on Epstein’s island nor any of his other properties. I spell my name ‘Steven,’ and there are Harvard professors named ‘Stephen’ who do have a connection with Epstein. This is not to say that Giuffre’s accusations are true, just that they are not about me.”

I downloaded  of Giuffre’s manuscript, and, unwilling to read 72 pages, I searched for “Stephen”, “quirky little man” and “mad scientist”, and didn’t find anything. Perhaps readers can find the part that VICE mentions.  At any rate, yes, Pinker has white hair, but he’s not “quirky”, and I, at least, don’t think he looks like a “mad scientist”. If this incident took place in the Virgin Islands, Pinker apparently didn’t go there. If it did and he did and is guilty as charged, well, the law will find that out, but I’m betting against it.

So what we have is evidence that Pinker was at events that Epstein attended, gave unpaid legal advice in a case against Epstein (which Pinker regrets), and flew on Epstein’s jet once, but only to California. The rest is speculation without evidence. Why is VICE indulging in this? I suspect mainly because VICE is woke and the woke media dislike Pinker intensely.

Epstein was of course an odious sexual predator (he killed himself in prison). But there’s no evidence that Pinker had anything more than a tangential connection with the man. As the evidence against Epstein continues to accumulate, now , imprisoned and awaiting trial, we’ll find out what happened. Until then, the smearing will continue.