Bari Weiss’s Handpicked CBS Contributor Peter Attia Sent Jeffrey Epstein Gross Emails

During an all-hands meeting with CBS News staffers last week, editor-in-chief Bari Weiss attempted to lay out a bold new vision for the network. She encouraged her staff to think of the decades-old TV news operation as a "start-up," and to prioritize "scoops of ideas," "scoops of investigation," and "scoops of explanation." She also announced the arrival of 19 new CBS News contributors, one of those contributors, Peter Attia, exchanged a bunch of emails with convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein.

Attia, a quack who calls himself a doctor but is really more of an influencer, was brought to CBS News to contribute ideas about longevity and aging. He is the author of a book titled Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity, and his website describes him as the founder of a medical practice that "applies the principles of Medicine 3.0 to patients with the goal of simultaneously lengthening their lifespan and increasing their healthspan." I probably don't need to tell you that he has a podcast, or that he likely got the CBS gig because Weiss interviewed him on her own podcast in 2023.

Attia's name is all over the latest batch of documents related to Epstein's case that the Department of Justice released on Friday. He exchanged hundreds of emails with Epstein, years after the sex offender and human trafficker had pleaded guilty to child prostitution charges. The volume and content of the emails indicate that Attia and Epstein had a close relationship.