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[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Though there is plenty of evidence they dissolved bodies as well as dumped them as medical waste from a hospital into the ocean.

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There is in fact not plenty of evidence. There is no evidence.

The sulfuric acid claim gets repeated constantly. Yes, invoices show Epstein purchased several 55-gallon drums of sulfuric acid. What people conveniently omit is the context. The island had a large reverse osmosis desalination system, and sulfuric acid is a very standard industrial chemical used to control pH and prevent scale buildup in those systems. There’s no forensic evidence anywhere in the files suggesting it was used for anything else.

The “medical waste dumped in the ocean” theory doesn’t appear in the Epstein investigation records at all. This seems to be people conflating unrelated scandals—like historical hospital waste dumping cases—with the Epstein story. The FBI and DOJ files make no mention of that method.

There are also viral claims about ritualistic sacrifice or dismemberment on his yacht. Something vaguely like this does appear in the files, but it comes from unverified FBI interview summaries. Agents documented hundreds of tips, and not all of them were credible. Those specific claims were never supported by physical evidence, satellite imagery, or additional witnesses.

Finally, the “Project Medbirth” or MedBeds documents circulating online are simply fabricated. The document numbers cited in those posts don’t exist in the DOJ archive.

In short, the files confirm Epstein was involved in systemic trafficking and abuse. That alone is horrific. But the acid body-disposal and medical-waste theories appear to come from misread documents and internet myth-making rather than anything substantiated in the records.

Look I'm not a supporter of anything Epstein related. I'm not trying to justify anything, I'm just looking at the evidence. And making up crap and summarily believing in crap on the internet isn't helping any of this.

[–] jaennaet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

It's crazy how people who would normally (and rightly) denounce reich-wingers for being credulous morons will instantly turn into credulous morons once the ridiculous conspiracy theories are about oligarchs