At least 10 people tied to sensitive US research have died or disappeared
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#2Last time I looked into this (last week, I think) it was a big wad of nothing. The people had disappeared over a span of many years. They weren't tied to any particular program, employer, or even any particular area of study, just “uh, tech stuff”. Some of them were technical experts, some weren't; one was an administrative assistant. One was killed by a campus shooter who also killed two students.
Typical example: “In the years since, several others connected to JPL have also died or disappeared: Frank Maiwald, a specialist in space research, died in Los Angeles in 2024 at 61.”
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#4Last time I looked into this (last week, I think) it was a big wad of nothing. The people had disappeared over a span of many years. They weren't tied to any particular program, employer, or even any particular area of study, just “uh, tech stuff”. Some of them were technical experts, some weren't; one was an administrative assistant. One was killed by a campus shooter who also killed two students. Typical example: “…
Yeah, it's like "At least 10 people with a red sweater on Tuesday have gone missing".
Or stupider: At least 10 people flipped a coin and it ended up on Heads!
The fact that it reached CNN levels of stupid means journalism is part of the overall USA's intentional brain drain.
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#5I need to see stats on how many would be expected to die or disappear from natural causes and I’m never seeing that on these stories. Weird things happen all the time to people in any field of work, it’s only concerning if this is rising above the natural noise. The fact that the current administration, which has proven time and time again it is ignorant about statistics and pretty much all things science, is raising the alarm does not bode well for this being an actual issue.
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#6Last time I looked into this (last week, I think) it was a big wad of nothing. The people had disappeared over a span of many years. They weren't tied to any particular program, employer, or even any particular area of study, just “uh, tech stuff”. Some of them were technical experts, some weren't; one was an administrative assistant. One was killed by a campus shooter who also killed two students. Typical example: “…
Yeah, it's like "At least 10 people with a red sweater on Tuesday have gone missing". Or stupider: At least 10 people flipped a coin and it ended up on Heads! The fact that it reached CNN levels of stupid means journalism is part of the overall USA's intentional brain drain.
It's worse than that, it's 11 people who wore sweaters in various shades of red, orange, and pink, at some point in the past ten years.
“Anthony Chavez, 79, worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory until he retired in 2017. He reportedly disappeared on May 8, 2025.”
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#7Last time I looked into this (last week, I think) it was a big wad of nothing. The people had disappeared over a span of many years. They weren't tied to any particular program, employer, or even any particular area of study, just “uh, tech stuff”. Some of them were technical experts, some weren't; one was an administrative assistant. One was killed by a campus shooter who also killed two students. Typical example: “…
Yeah, it's like "At least 10 people with a red sweater on Tuesday have gone missing". Or stupider: At least 10 people flipped a coin and it ended up on Heads! The fact that it reached CNN levels of stupid means journalism is part of the overall USA's intentional brain drain.
This is the same network that breathlessly covered the obviously fake “drone swarms”.
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#8Color me skeptical. Whenever I see this come up in a social media feed it's a UFO influencer. It's leaked out into the legacy news presenters who have great haircuts and no critical thinking skills.
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#9Color me skeptical. Whenever I see this come up in a social media feed it's a UFO influencer. It's leaked out into the legacy news presenters who have great haircuts and no critical thinking skills.
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#10Last time I looked into this (last week, I think) it was a big wad of nothing. The people had disappeared over a span of many years. They weren't tied to any particular program, employer, or even any particular area of study, just “uh, tech stuff”. Some of them were technical experts, some weren't; one was an administrative assistant. One was killed by a campus shooter who also killed two students. Typical example: “…
Yeah, it's like "At least 10 people with a red sweater on Tuesday have gone missing". Or stupider: At least 10 people flipped a coin and it ended up on Heads! The fact that it reached CNN levels of stupid means journalism is part of the overall USA's intentional brain drain.
To be fair to CNN, this article is about an FBI investigation.