The Highwire with Del Bigtree - EPSTEIN FILES REVEAL POWER BROKERS IN SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING

Episode Date: February 28, 2026

Newly surfaced documents and reporting are fueling questions about whether a small network of powerful players including Bill Gates, Jeffrey Epstein, and individuals linked to Robert Maxwell’s scientific publishing legacy sought outsized influence over how research is distributed and amplified. Emails, investments, and media-funding ties are being cited as potential indicators of an effort to shape which scientific ideas rise to prominence and which get sidelined. The broader issue: who controls the pipelines of modern science—publishing, PR, and perception—and what transparency is owed to the public when power concentrates behind the scenes.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

I'm going to finish off here with kind of the story that just keeps on telling itself, and that's the Epstein files. In order to paint this picture, I want to start here with really Jeffrey Epstein's confidant, friend who's sitting in a jail cell right now, Gisling Maxwell, her father, Robert Maxwell. He basically is responsible for the for-profit, controlled peer review research journal system that we've lived under for decades. you know, the stuff that settles science. So this is the article that kind of lays this out really to give you a quick hit on this. It's titled, Is the Staggering Profitable

Business of Scientific Publishing Bad for Science. It says, no one was more transformative and ingenious than Robert Maxwell who turned scientific journals into a spectacular money-making machine that bankrolled his rise in British society. It says scientists occasionally question the fairness of this hugely profitable business to which they supplied their work for free. but it was university librarians who first realized the trap in the market Maxwell had created. The librarians used university funds to buy journals on behalf of scientists. Basically what was happening is universities were forced by these journals. These journals were extremely inflated in their price.

They were blown their budget on this. But then the scientists basically had to kneel before this because in order to get things published, they had to jump into this system. And it became this self-perpetuating monolith. and he was sitting there reaping all the profits. So now I want to bring that to present day because these are monopolistic men. And that's Robert Maxwell,

connected clearly through Jislane to Jeffrey Epstein. But then we have Bill Gates also connected to Jeffrey Epstein, and he's a monopoly man too. Despite all of the charitable work he's done, here's a headline here because it's hard to find bad press about him unless you do social media. Documents show Bill Gates has given 319,

million to media outlets. You can see here how many of the almost 60 media outlets the Gates Foundation money has gone towards to skew reporting about the foundation and to report favorably about things that's near and dear to the heart like vaccines. Well, let's go into the Epstein files here because we have Gates chief scientific and technology advisor Dr. Boris Nicolik. He's been in the Epstein files before we showed you. Here's more. He started something called Biosis Capital Partners in

2014 and he was its managing partner while still working with the Bill Melinda Gayes Foundation and you can see here this picture they invested Bill Gates invested $10 million in something called Research Gate now Research Gate we reported some of the research during the pandemic this is a the 25 million plus members worldwide it's kind of a hybrid between social media like LinkedIn social media and a science publishing clearinghouse and what they do is you can Any researcher, scientists can upload their information there. So Bill Gates tried basically to monopolize this with the help of Jeffrey Epstein.

And we go to an ex post by an account named Science Guardians, and they give a really clear view of what's going on here. They said, why would billionaires like Gates and Epstein crave this kind of power? They said, owning a hub like Research Gate lets them shape what research explodes into the spotlight and what quietly fades away. Control the feeds and recommendations equals quietly steering. You can see scientists chase and published which next, what projects get grants and funding, and what the public is told is solid science.

So now it's not only monopolizing a key part of science, but also incentivizing to hype it. So Gates bills himself as someone who he really cares about charity first. It's not about making money. But here's Dr. Boris Nicolik, basically his right-hand man, speaking to Jeffrey Epstein after the investment of $10 million in Researchgate. He begins hyping the company. So here's one of the emails.

This is Dr. Nicolich to Jeffrey Epstein. He says, some good news. Research Gait is making major progress. A flurry of news just started. Another one. When we talked earlier in the day, I mentioned you about research data. I sent you several articles last week, but an addition one came out. And this is in science.

It is incredible. After nature and all our magazines, I will know in two to three weeks when is next round plan and for how much. So here, Dr. Nicolick, who's connected to Gates is feeding Epstein sex trafficker, real-time insider information and advice, trading advice, essentially. Sounds kind of illegal, but then he goes on to say this in another email. As we watch this, read this, Jeffrey, just try to wrap my head around, why would Epstein care, right? I mean, why is Bill Gates and his little henchman, you know, dancing for Jeffrey

Epstein? Hey, guess what? We got research up at Gate. Oh, we're affecting the news. Who is Epstein? I mean, I know this is simple. We're all sitting here, but every time we read this stuff, who is this guy? Why is Bill Gates and his little henchman dancing for this guy? Who are they all really working for, I think, is what we're starting to try and paint a picture here. Because I thought, you know, if Bill Gates was in charge during coronavirus, but he'll dance for Epstein. Why? Why does Epstein care if these articles are being published?

It just shows you something much darker, bigger, and, and, and, and, and, you know, and, you know, more sinister going on in all of this stuff. Yeah, when you go through the emails, Epstein and the people that were controlling him and directing him had an extreme interest in monopolizing science, medicine, pandemic planning, physics, new physics. He wanted to control things. He was looking into these things. So now, a final one here from Dr. Nicolick to Epstein.

He says this, Researchgate is getting there with an explanation mark. This week, the nature, one of the competitors, published this article essentially, demonstrating that Researchgate is winning. So he's just hyping this and hyping this and hyping this. But again, as you look across the waterfront of all of the emails, there's some pretty ugly stuff in there. And one of them dealt with Bill Gates. We spoke about this a couple weeks ago and some girls. And so here's the headline. Bill Gates denied it. Just just a couple weeks ago. He said, Bill Gates denied sex accusations in recent Epstein files a release. It's about a couple Russian girls he met. Now, that never happened. Well, that didn't work. That limited hangout didn't

work because here he is now. Bill Gates admits affairs with Russians but denies illicit behavior. So I'll give you, this is the Bill Gates apology tour. I'll give you a little bit, but I'm not going to tell you everything I did. I guess I did something with some Russian girls. I had a couple affairs. That's fine. But I didn't do anything else. Trust me. Well, that doesn't look like the truth. And here's an article, what Gates knew? And this kind of throws it out there in this opening paragraph says the Epstein files reveal a system, not a scandal, across eight investigations and thousands of EFTA number documents. The pattern is not one of compromised billionaires making bad choices.

It's an operational infrastructure, financial instruments, intelligence channels, diplomatic access, personal placement and narrative control, structured in a way that concentrated influence. That's the key right there, concentrating influence monopolies. And I want to end this segment with some breaking news right as a way. we're going to air, that president of the World Economic Forum has just stepped down due to his ties to Epstein. Wow.

This is Borg. Brend, he is out. He has stepped down himself. He has resigned. He has put his letter of resignation in there. He was under investigation by the forum, by the World Economic Forum. And we were actually not holding our breath on that because the World Economic Forum investigating its own people.

But it looks like he was given the option to step down and he has done that. So again, dominoes are continuing the fall. This isn't, these are some serious people that are stepping down. Many of them in Europe we're seeing just day by day. It seems like there's more and more. Wow, Jeffrey, amazing reporting. These are amazing moments we're in. And in many ways, you know, I feel like, you know, we talked about the end of COVID that we had won.

We're not walking around with tracing, you know, our vaccine passports not on our phone. We can get back on planes. The masks came off. And I said, you know, they've retreated, you know, the dark forces have retreated over the hill. But I said, mark my words, they're over there, planning and scheming their return. In some ways, this bare moment and what's going on right now, it feels like they think it's time to come back over that hill and begin their attack again. Probably a little earlier than many of us realized. But it's okay, Jeffrey, we're waiting for them.

We know their plan. We're going to keep laying it out.