-Yea. If Chomsky helped you open your eyes to see the world as it is, why would you then close them again to avoid inconveniencing his reputation?

Of course there's a lot of people hate Chomsky and his work for other reasons: their ties to state and corporate power being the most obvious and are just loving this, but I'm pretty sure we have all learned from Chomsy here.

I've always been more interested in what he has uncovered than in his extempore pronunciations on what we should do with that knowledge. His recent views on a number of things: Syria being the most prominent, have to my mind been inexplicable in being a failure of proper investigation as well as conclusion. I reckon that's otherwise called " growing old"

As to him fantasising about about Epstein's Island well, I don't really see anything in that. He's more the straw hat and a book on the beach market sell than teen-porn massage fantasy and I reckon the former is indeed what he was being sold.
The question is though, did he signaly fail to investigate the man who was clearly providing him with largese in the firm of grace and favour luxury suites and expensive hotel boltholes, or did he just not care?

The worlds most prominent intellectual surely must have known Epstein was in deep with Mossad: indeed he couldn't have missed that his partner/procuress was the daughter of the famously corrupt businessman "Hero of Israel" and Mossad spy Robert Maxwell, but it seems he didn't care.

I note Aaron Mate who had written a defense of Chomsky the other day has now read further further into the e-mails and produced a partial retraction:

https://nitter.net/aaronjmate/status/2019130590180610152#m

-It's good we still have able commentators honest enough to rethink their views when new information comes to light: I can't help thinking we would have less without Chomsky.