[00:00] I just found out my name pops up in the Epstein  database not once but twice. So here's everything   I know about it. How it ended up in there. Full  disclosure for a week now. The Epstein scandal  
[00:12] has been everywhere on social media and rightly  so. Even I talked about it on Monday. I touched on   the Peter Aia case and I was messaging with some  doctor friends and they were looking themselves  
[00:24] up and saying, "Thank God I'm not in there."  almost light-hearted because you don't expect   to be in a repository like that if you're not a  celebrity or super rich. But I put my name in,   I hit search and I was smiling like, "Yeah,  right." And two hits pop up, not emails,  
[00:40] two PDFs and it's two copies of the same thing,  same document and you can click and open it and   read the whole thing. And it's a research proposal  that I wrote in 2013 when I was a post-doal  
[00:54] scholar in a neurobiology research institute  in Los Angeles. And I remember typing this.   I remember making these figures. This scientific  document is sitting in the Epstein database on the  
[01:07] website of the Department of Justice of the United  States. So this blew my mind for a second. How did   this thing end up in there? I didn't even know who  the guy was 13 years ago before he became famous  
[01:20] for all the wrong reasons. And in fact, there's no  email hits with my name. There's nothing else on   the whole database. Just this PDF of my work kind  of dangling in there. How is that possible? My  
[01:34] first thought was somebody probably just sent this  to him because they thought it was interesting. It   was fascinating research, the neurobiology  of emotions and feelings. I think a lot of   people would find that interesting. So, I thought  maybe somebody just sent this to him like, "Hey,  
[01:50] look at this cool research they're doing over in  LA. Super creepy that they sent it to this guy,   but I thought maybe that was it." But then I  kept digging more and I figured it out. The   director of the institute I worked at, Dr. Deasio,  he would pitch the ongoing research to rich people  
[02:08] all the time. That's a common source of funding  in universities and research centers in the US,   donations from rich people. And so Jeffrey  Epstein was one of the people he pitched to.  
[02:20] All the emails documenting this are public records  now. They're all made public in this database. I   went through it. You can see the emails to the  assistant saying, "We have this interesting   research going on at the center. Mr. Epste might  be interested in supporting some of this." and  
[02:37] then scheduling a meeting to go over all the  research. There's even a couple of emails directly   with Jeffrey Epstein confirming the time of the  meeting. And this meeting took place in February  
[02:50] of 2013. In one of his trips, the director was  in New York City. He came over to Epstein's. They   went over the research that was being carried  out at the center, including the research I was   involved in. That's how my research proposal ends  up in the now infamous Jeffrey Epstein inbox. And  
[03:09] at the end of the meeting, Epstein ends up  deciding not to fund the research. Thank God   in retrospect. Best rejection in human history.  And that project ended up being funded through   a research grant and it was successful and we  published it. I knew all of that part obviously.  
[03:24] I did not know this backstory, this creepy  historical footnote that Jeffrey Epstein had an   option to fund some of our research and passed on  it fortunately. And I just spoke to the director  
[03:38] on the phone and we talked about it, went over  the whole story. I asked him a bunch of questions.   I was really curious who wouldn't be. And I  can tell you exactly what he said. It's not a   secret. He said he first met Jeffrey Epstein at a  dinner party that he threw for famous scientists,  
[03:54] university professors and Nobel laureates, that  kind of thing. He said Epstein was a celebrity   collector. He wanted to know and be in touch  with anyone who had power or influence in any  
[04:06] sphere. So he threw this dinner party for famous  scientists. The director and his wife attended.   That's where they first met Epstein. years later  there was the pitch meeting. That's how he was  
[04:19] able to arrange it because he had met him at  the dinner. And he said those were the only   two times he saw him. And he said they realized  who he was, his crimes and all that when the big  
[04:31] expose came out, the big article. I think it was  2017 or 2018 I think it was. And it became general   knowledge and they realized the bullet they had  dodged. And I imagine nowadays they probably do  
[04:44] extensive background searches on everybody at  the institute before scheduling meetings or   considering donors. And I know this video is not  about nutrition or science interpretation per se,  
[04:56] but it would feel weird to find this and not tell  anybody. We always talk about let's look at facts   even if they're uncomfortable, right? Well,  time to walk the walk. Especially after the  
[05:09] other day I mentioned it to you. Now I find out  my name's in there and I pretend I didn't see it.   I I would feel like a massive hypocrite. So just  out with it. No secrets. What I know, you know.