Ivy Covered Irony: MIT Reports about Harvard
January 30, 2020
DarkCyber has mentioned MIT’s enthusiastic but mostly covert embrace of the late Mr. Epstein’s donations. One of the research team noted this article in the MIT Technology Review: “A Harvard Super Chemist Has Been Arrested Over Lying about Secret China Payments.” The main point of the Epstein-supported MIT Technology Review struck the DarkCyber team as:
According to a charging document written by an FBI agent, Lieber received more than $15 million in US grant funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense, among other sources. Researchers are supposed to disclose if they also have foreign funding. But Lieber didn’t do so and then, when confronted, gave “false, fictitious, and fraudulent statements” to the DOD and to the NIH as recently as this month.
Yep, the Epstein-interacting institution is reporting that Harvard engaged in illegal activities.
Several observations:
- The write up may have more to do with making sure readers of MIT Technology Review know that Harvard University has a bad actor on the payroll
- Another prestigious institution struggles to provide a reasonable example of ethical behavior
- An interesting philosophical question can be discussed in a law school class at Suffolk University: “Which is more desirable — Taking money from an accursed human trafficker or selling information to a foreign power?”
DarkCyber is disappointed that two institutions of higher education are teaching by example, just not positive example.
Stephen E Arnold, January 30, 2020
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