Harvard’s Martin Novak Resigns

Martin A. Nowak, infamous for the “did you torture her?” email, abruptly resigns from the Austrian Academy of Sciences just days before an ethics investigation could reveal his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Emails show Epstein actively recruiting young women from Romania for Nowak’s so-called “research,” with Nowak’s own Ph.D. student, Corina Tarnita, implicated in facilitating their involvement. Meanwhile, Harvard continues its investigation into whether Nowak violated professional conduct, amid years of Epstein funding his lab and arranging secret meetings as recently as 2019.

Tarnita’s associates appear to be actively scrubbing her digital footprint. On Wikipedia, multiple attempts to document her connection to Epstein have been blocked, and so far she has not faced any consequences for her role.