In the last two months, the public vivisection of the powerful people associated with Jeffrey Epstein, Wall Street banker guilty of large-scale child sex trafficking, turned its eyes towards the scientific community. Epstein, who fancied himself a patron of the sciences, donated large sums of money to research institutions. Notably, he contributed millions to the MIT Media Lab. The Media Lab came under fire for knowingly accepting Epstein donations, despite his being listed as a “disqualified donator”, and passing them off as anonymous ones (Farrow). Joi Ito, director of the research lab…