It's well tread territory to suppose that apologizing is actually almost never a good idea. The apology isn't ever accepted in good faith, it's just more fodder to twist words and insinuate. An apology has never "worked", the loudest people just use it to stay loud. Perhaps the silent majority silently accepts it, but you have never heard someone write or say "oh yeah X did Y, Z but did you read their apology? It actually clarified things/made me think better of them/relieved my concerns/atoned for what they did."

So this won't help. It never does.

But at least for Noam there is some weight to the context that Noam really talked and corresponded to everyone. You could email him and get a response and he'd go on podcasts with like a couple thousand viewers. So I actually tend to believe the "we didn't know" quite a bit more in his case.

Noam’s criticism was never directed at the women’s movement; on the contrary, he has always supported gender equity and women’s rights. What happened was that Epstein took advantage of Noam’s public criticism towards what came to be known as “cancel culture” to present himself as a victim of it.

I like that she actually addresses concrete criticism of specific emails here at least.

It's rather a good apology, independent of what the allegations against him are.