Following on from this post: Are the Event 201 Coronavirus Simulation and Jeffrey Epstein's Harvard program of Evolutionary Dynamics linked? I think so.. , this comment highlighted the connection of Lee Smolin with the network of scientists which were connected to Jeffrey Epstein and John Brockman of the Edge organisation and the Billionaires' Dinners: https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/3702405/22870927

Lee Smolin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Smolin

Lee Smolin (/ˈsmoʊlɪn/; born June 6, 1955) is an American theoretical physicist, a faculty member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Waterloo and a member of the graduate faculty of the philosophy department at the University of Toronto.

Smolin was born in New York City.[3] His brother, David M. Smolin, became a professor in the Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, Alabama.

Lee Smolin was funded by Jeffrey Epstein. See: Jeffrey Epstein, the W.M. Keck Foundation, the Rothschild's Société Générale Bank and the intelligence services

The Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation has supported many leading scientists including Stephen Hawkings, Martin Nowak, Gregory Benford, Lee Smolin, Seth Lloyd, Lawrence Krauss, Artificial Intelligence scientist, Marvin Minsky and Nobel Laureates Gerard 't Hooft, David Gross and Frank Wilczek.

His brother David Smolin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_M._Smolin

David Mark Smolin is a professor of law at Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, Alabama where he is the Harwell G. Davis Chair in Constitutional Law,[1] director for The Center for Children, Law, and Ethics, former director of the Center for Biotechnology, Law, and Ethics,[2] and faculty advisor for the Law, Science and Technology Society.

..He recently presented on adoption issues at the Korean Women's Development Institute in Seoul, Korea; the Second International Symposium on Korean Adoption Studies in Seoul, Korea; and (as an independent expert) at the Hague Special Commission on the Practical Operation of the Hague Adoption Convention.

...His own family's international adoption, discovery that their children were stolen, and ultimately successful, though arduous, six year search for the girls' original birth family in India was featured on NPR's Morning Edition titled Adoption Stories Gone Bad,[7] and by ABC News

..Much of Smolin's recent academic work regards international adoption, child trafficking and child laundering.

His wife is Desiree Smolin. They have eight children, two of whom were adopted from India in 1998.

In this paper witten by Smolin: The Two Faces of Intercountry Adoption: The Significance of the Indian Adoption Scandals https://scholarship.shu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1202&context=shlr&gt

The Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh at that time,

Chandrababu Naidu, is particularly well-known in the West, where he

has an enviable reputation as the CEO of Indian politicians.278 Naidu

has carefully groomed an international image as a businessman–

statesman, who governs Andhra Pradesh via his laptop, while making

Andhra Pradesh’s capital city, Hyderabad, into “Cyberabad,” an

international center for information technology (“IT”).279 Naidu’s

reputation stemmed from his advocacy of a certain kind of

globalization for Andhra Pradesh, whereby the workings of

government would be modernized through the use of IT, and the

government would nurture the growth of a globally-connected,

private IT industry. **Naidu has associated himself with major Western

figures like Bill Gates and Bill Clinton,** while forming strong alliances

with international organizations such as the World Bank.

Chandrababu Naidu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._Chandrababu_Naidu

In 2000 both Bill Clinton (President of the United States ) and Tony Blair (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom) visited Hyderabad and met with Naidu whilst he was Chief Minister.[43] Aparisim Ghosh of the American news magazine, Time commented, "In just five years, he has turned an impoverished, rural backwater place into India's new information-technology hub"[44],and the magazine named Naidu 'South Asian of the Year'.

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2009/03/12/rundown-312

We also hear from David Smolin, who is featured in the Mother Jones story because he adopted children from India who were not orphans. Their mother was tricked into giving up her rights to the two girls. Eventually they told David and his wife they were not orphans. So the Smolins traveled to India and found the girls' parents. Now Smolin, who teaches law at Samford University in Alabama, is an advocate for adoption reform.

Interesting. Feels like there's much more to the story.