Krauss says let’s not go crazy here.

As Epstein was nearing the end of his thirteen-month jail sentence in 2009, he called me. He had learned that I had moved to ASU and that I was hoping to establish the Origins Project program there. Jail time, he said, had convinced him that making money should no longer be his primary goal. He wanted to support science and science education, and he wanted advice about where to direct his money. He expressed interest in supporting the ASU effort. I told him that the conduct for which he had been convicted had been, aside from its illegality, highly inappropriate and plainly stupid. I also thought that his plan was laudable and possibly redemptive. 

Notice anything missing?

No mention of the trauma of the girls caused by “the conduct for which he had been convicted”. Tut tut it was illegal and highly inappropriate and plainly stupid – dear me how naughty. Nothing about the harm done to the girls. No mention of the girls. No horror at what his friend did to the girls. No empathy for the girls. No mention of the girls. Abstract hand-wringing, but the real guts and gore of the matter left tactfully out. What a horrible man.

The nature of the crime of which Epstein was convicted—soliciting a prostitute who was under the age of consent in Florida (which he claimed not to have known)—didn’t seem, at the time, to be sufficiently monstrous to justify prohibiting him from further worthwhile social activity.

Note the “at the time.” I suppose that’s because nobody happened to say so in Krauss’s hearing at the time. Apparently he was and is incapable of figuring it out for himself.