American Armenian businessman and inventor Noubar Afeyan, founder and CEO of Flagship Pioneering and co-founder of Moderna, has reacted to the decision of world-famous Lebanese American philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

As reported earlier, Taleb had refused to travel to Azerbaijan, thereby expressing support for former Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) state minister and philanthropist Ruben Vardanyan, who is illegally detained in a prison in Baku, the Azerbaijani capital.

“Thank you for your principled stance,” Afeyan wrote on X, addressing Nassim Nicholas Taleb.