Bill Maher

I mean, I consider him a colleague only because he's in the field of neuroscience, right?

But Richard Axel won the Nobel Prize for discovering the molecular basis of olfaction.

He shared it with Linda Buck in 2004.

And he had to step down as the director of the Columbia Neurosciences Institute today.

No, I got this off.

Yeah.

So please.

Don't take me so seriously.

He was a pillar of our field, and to learn that he was buddy-buddy with Epstein for so many years, and I think that it's, so here's one thing that's clear to me at the, I'm not a psychologist, but I'm a human being with some degree of experience, and what I know is that if you're in touch with your gut sense,

If you're around a guy like Epstein, you should want to get out of there.

So the fact that people with... Now, I understand how some people were manipulated by him because they were too young or whatever to be able to navigate that, but why anyone, especially these supposed high IQ folks, would actively seek him out and try to embed themselves in his world?

But before I do, who are you gonna tell me about?

Richard Axel.

Yes.

Yeah, no, that wasn't what I was going to tell you about.

Well, tell me.

Okay, so I've looked at this thing very carefully now because you and I are in the business of media.

So here's the question that I think has not been explored thoroughly enough.

Why is it that in 2008, Epstein was convicted, then comes back to New York, I mean, he's still traveling all over the place, and

people continue to engage with this guy.