The Drumbeat Continues... - Part 2

In a previous post,* we noted that as part of the fallout from the Epstein affair as it affects academia, individuals with little to do with Epstein, but whose name appears somewhere in the file dump, are getting caught. We noted the example of a faculty member at Penn who sent an email inquiring if money for a research project might be available, and got written up in the student newspaper for this inquiry.

Here's another example from Penn: This time a faculty member was found to have attended a research seminar at a facility owned by Epstein. There was no other "relationship." Yet he was also written up:

https://www.thedp.com/article/2026/02/penn-professor-epstein-research-seligman-psychology-trump.

Witch hunts are seldom just about finding witches. They are often about settling old scores, powerplays, or - in this particular affair - Schadenfreude.

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*https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-drumbeat-continues.html. See also:

https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2026/02/told-you-so.html and

https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2026/02/epstein-in-academialand.html.