>“I Killed Pons Years Ago”:
>Epstein Files Reveal Claim of Personal Role in Destroying Cold Fusion Scientist’s Career Through Congressional Defunding
"The Seckel emails are not the only place in the federal record where Epstein’s relationship to suppressed science surfaces. Five additional exhibits — EFTA01799438, EFTA00654803, EFTA00827221, EFTA00325084, and EFTA02463658 — contain an email exchange between Epstein and Rupert Sheldrake, the Cambridge-trained biologist and author known for his research into phenomena at the margins of conventional science. The correspondence runs from April 3 to May 18, 2016.
"On April 3, 2016, Epstein wrote to Sheldrake:
“at MIT we are beginning a ‘taboo’ science review. crispr, gene drives. etc. what new surprises have you decided to focus on”
"Sheldrake corrected him. CRISPR and gene drives are not taboo — they are as mainstream as science gets. Then he pointed Epstein toward the real taboo:
“One taboo topic I am interested in is the area of LENR — so called above unity devices that produce more energy than they should according to conventional physics.”
"LENR — Low Energy Nuclear Reactions — is the term that replaced “cold fusion” after Pons and Fleischmann’s work was discredited. It describes thesame category of anomalous energy phenomena.Sheldrake sent Epstein links to an Edge.org summary, the results of a one-year trial of Andrea Rossi’s 1MW E-Cat reactor, and a special issue of the Indian Journal of Current Science dedicated to LENR research. He also mentioned a British company working on “a very promising device, currently being tested in some UK government laboratories.”
"Then Sheldrake asked the question directly:
“Did you discuss alternative energy possibilities like LENR at the meeting at MIT when you were discussing ‘taboo’ science?”
"The federal record does not contain Epstein’s answer.
"But thequestion itself illuminates the structure. The man who privately boasted of killing Pons’s cold fusion career through congressional defunding in the late 1980s was, twenty-seven years later, convening meetings at MIT to determine which suppressed sciences would be reviewed — and a participant was asking whether cold fusion’s direct successor had made the list. Epstein was no longer just the man who killed the science. He was the man who controlled whether it could be reconsidered.
"The correspondence also reveals the recruitment pattern documented throughout the Epstein files. Over six weeks, Epstein offered to pay all of Sheldrake’s expenses to Paris, then to Harvard (”harvard institue, will pick up all costs”), tried Skype, then settled for a phone call.Sheldrake was cordial but did not visit.
"The mutual connection was John Brockman — the literary agent behind Edge.org, the elite science salon that functioned as an intellectual clearinghouse for the world’s most prominent scientists, and whose extensive ties to Epstein have been separately documented. Sheldrake confirmed he was Brockman’s first British client.
"Epstein then forwarded the Sheldrake correspondence to a redacted recipient — someone else in the network was being briefed on this recruitment.
"The arc is now visible across three decades.In 1989, Epstein claims to have destroyed cold fusion through congressional lobbying. In 2009, he boasts about it privately. In 2016, he is convening the institutional venues where suppressed science might be reconsidered — with the power to decide what gets discussed and what doesn’t.The gatekeeper never left the gate."
"What this establishes…."
"What this does not establish…."
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