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> Correction 16 December: An earlier version of this story incorrectly defined the kind of plasma that Professor Loureiro researched. If I get shot and someone writes some libelous bullshit about how I worked with hygienic macro systems, someone kindly jump on that shit ASAP. Thanks in advance!
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Unlikely. He was killed in the foyer [1] of his building in an exceedingly safe city (Brookline, MA). In a neighborhood with mixed SFHs and condos, it makes little sense to target a condo. Makes even less sense for someone to break in, but to shoot the victim outside, in the foyer. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmbmBNre5SQ
Agree. Most killings are not random, but committed by someone the victim knows.
Could this be related to the Brown shooting?
If it is, do you think it’s the Iranians taking revenge on American civilian scientists, or a Ted Kaczynski type?
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https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/419454
Please don't link to such a rag. There's absolutely nothing of substance in this article and even several glaring factual mistakes.
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They're only 40 miles apart. Moreover, they're both (apparently) premeditated gun murders targeting academics at famous universities. edit to add: (For those who weren't aware, the Brown University terrorist is still on the loose).
One was a home invasion that may or may not be related to the victims work on fusion plasma. It is very likely unrelated to that work. The other was a mass shooting style event that targetted an exam preperation review hall populated by econ students and led by a 21-year-old teaching assistant. It's a stretch to connect an isolated murder of a field advancing physics researcher and a hall full of students just becaus…
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You’ve been downvoted by others because this is lazy stereotyping.
By your logic, anything that satisfies Occam's razor is lazy stereotyping. And that doesn't make the idea unlikely anyway.
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Other possibility; a disgruntled investor who poured millions into dead-end fusion research and now wishes they had invested in AI research instead? Blames the professor for persuading them to invest in fusion. It's a tough one to find a motive for...
Can you quote 1 other example of a disgruntled investor that has killed an American academic over the last 50 years ?