With Jefferey Epstein having been outed and arrested, and given all of his well known connections in industry, academia, and politics, is it still controversial to say that there might be pedophilia within the ranks of government?
What does that mean?
Like just based on the size of government... someone is probably a pedophile. But I don't know what that means other than there is a lot of people in government.
Beyond that "that there might be pedophilia within the ranks of government" seems too vague.
No, actual specific public officers have been arrested and convicted of child sex crimes.
There's a difference between belief that the Pizzagate conspiracy theory is true, and belief that there might (or even the stronger belief that there absolutely is) "pedophilia within the ranks of the government".
One is a very specific conspiracy theory, and one is a belief that a phenomenon which is present throughout humanity and which, like most things, is enabled by positions of power is not somehow magically completely excluded from government. (So, in a sense, an anti-conspiracy theory.)