A British dinosaur convention is banning some paleontologists named in the
Jeffrey Epstein files from attending DinoCon – as the global scientific community becomes the latest to grapple with the convicted sex offender’s connections to prominent people in the worlds of business, politics and academia.
“As a result of the release of half of the Epstein files, it has come to light that a select number of scientists, authors and researchers relevant to the field of palaeontology allegedly engaged in correspondence with members of the Epstein organisation after the conviction of Jeffrey Epstein,” DinoCon said in a
statement posted on X. “We want to state that all respective individuals are banned from all of our events.”
DinoCon, which is set to take place in late July in Birmingham, also called on other paleontology organizations to take “firm action” with their membership, saying: “We do not tolerate those who allow this behaviour to go unchallenged within our community.”
The convention’s stand comes after the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology acknowledged in a
Facebook post this month that the names of some of its members have appeared in the Epstein files, prompting “questions and concern within the broader community.” The society’s executive committee emphasized, however, that “the appearance of a name, or even an email, in released documents does not, in itself, establish wrongdoing.”
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