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The public’s visceral disgust toward these “untouchable” elites has recently manifested in a fascination with medical speculation. Internet sleuths have fixated on video clips of Jeffrey Epstein and other high-profile associates, noting unusual mouth movements and tremors. While medical professionals caution against remote diagnoses, the public has drawn parallels between these symptoms and Kuru—a prion-based neurodegenerative disease caused by the consumption of human tissue. This “Kuru speculation” highlights a profound shift in the national psyche: the public is no longer willing to give the benefit of the doubt to those found in the Epstein flight logs. The suspicion of “prion brain rot” has become a metaphor for the perceived moral decay of a celebrity class that viewed the world as their personal larder.
