The right-o-sphere, led by Elon Musk, has launched a smear campaign to tar Yoel Roth as a pedophile. (This is not Musks's first time baselessly smearing someone as a pedophile). The gist of the lie is based on a single line taken out of context from Roth's Ph.D thesis.
If you'd like to read the Ph.D thesis itself (or at least browse it), you can find it here. (https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/1985/) You will find no pedophilia. You will find Roth calling for platforms like Grinder to do a better job of ensuring the safety of minors.
Facts matter.
Do not take advice on virology, molecular biology, or phylogenetic analysis from this man.
You'd think that Elon Musk would have learned something after Vernon Unsworth slapped him with a defamation lawsuit for falsely accusing him of being a pedophile. It's like Elon Musk is proof in the pudding that old habits die hard.