UCSD professors wanted money to research telepathy. They turned to Jeffrey Epstein.

By the time Jeffrey Epstein wrote a $50,000 check to fund unusual research into the paranormal by UC San Diego scientists, they had already known they could turn to him for money.

Back in 2010, a fundraising request for the university’s Center for Brain and Cognition, led by renowned neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran, had been sent to Epstein — by then already a convicted sex criminal. 

Seven years later, the financier emerged again as a potential benefactor for Ramachandran and high-profile colleagues at UCSD.

In 2017, Ramachandran and two other UCSD professors, Paul Mills and Deepak Chopra, the famous New Age author, were launching a study of autistic children thought to be savants. They had a particular interest in one provocative claim — that some might have telepathic abilities. 

“I don’t have a problem with my lab being funded by Epstein,” Ramachandran wrote to Chopra in September 2017, in an Read Entire Article