All Cons Should Be Like DinoCon About Epstein
To keep this article from being unreadably disturbing, I won’t go into any depth about the horrors contained in the latest release of the redacted Epstein files. If you wish to find out how low the bottom of this well of bottom-feeders is, look it up yourself. Something I am willing to talk about, however, is the wave of new names revealed in the latest file dump — names of people who were in contact with Jeffrey Epstein, after his conviction for “producing a person under the age of 18 for prostitution.”
Also willing to talk about the names is the UK-based dinosaur-focused convention DinoCon. In a statement posted to social media on Feb. 9, 2026, DinoCon stated that it has banned from its upcoming July convention in Birmingham a “select number of scientists, authors and researchers relevant to the field of palaeontology (UK spelling) allegedly engaged in correspondence with members of the Epstein organisation” after he was convicted.
One of the reasons DinoCon needed to make this statement is that there is a surpassingly large number of scientists connected to Epstein. He apparently was almost as interested in science as he was in underage girls. And, for some reason, many of those scientists felt it was OK to correspond via email with Epstein, even though they must have known he was a convicted pedophile.
I’ve seen fewer instances reported on of people connected to the nerd convention community being connected to Epstein. Former Activision/Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick is one of those, detailed in wonderfully blunt ranting by Stephanie Sterling in a YouTube video. And, while not someone you would likely see at a convention, producer of nerd TV shows like Bones, The Tick, and Ultraviolet, Barry Josephson, is also in the recent Epstein files release. There are more, without a doubt.
Every convention, nerd-focused or otherwise, should set a policy similar to that of DinoCon, of zero tolerance for anyone connected to Epstein. And they should announce that policy in a social media blast. If they were smart, they would keep a publicly available list of people who have been banned for that reason, because you know there will be questions about how serious the convention is about the policy.
We encourage everyone to ask their favorite conventions if they have such a policy. I hope to do a follow-up piece listing a large number of cons that have made a similar commitment to protecting its attendees and the nerd convention community at large.
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