12 comments

  • himata4113 an hour ago

    This appears to be for investigating how many scientist have left the US sponsored by state powers. But this also seems like bad communication on the FBI and perhaps poor publishing.

    I think there is some confusion that there are more people going missing and dying in the sector while not outlining that there are more people going missing AND dying.

    Or I'm just completely wrong, the only reason why I am making such assumptions because there is more information about this in the ASML case where a whisleblower leaked that china has poached ASML engineers and have given them new identities to work in chip manufacturing sector in china.

  • neurocline an hour ago

    Once I saw “James Comer” I knew I could ignore this.

  • wmf an hour ago

    I don't have the link but someone estimated the number of scientists working in the defense field (it's a lot) and the number of deaths per year you'd expect (over 100). There's probably nothing here. It probably doesn't hurt to have the FBI take a second look at any death of somebody who has a security clearance or is working on export-controlled tech, but OTOH that might be a lot of work.

    • deathlight a minute ago

      So are you saying that each of these "experts" is not an actual top of field expert but merely one of hundreds of expert cogs (per field!) in a giant machine so vast that of course some of them will crashout, be kidnapped, blackmailed, die outright, agree to a global government psyop, etc?

    • xbar an hour ago

      Deaths and mysterious deaths are not at all the same. Mysterious deaths and vanishings become increasingly rare the higher up the socio-economic curve you climb.

      It is not surprising that the FBI did not detect an actual pattern before now, considering the various ways that the entirety of it spent the entirety of 2025.

  • mmooss an hour ago

    The article doesn't seem to reveal the source of its information about these alleged disappearances. Is it the letters from the members of Congress?

    Also, what interest would a foreign power have in planetary defense against asteroids? Is there some dual-use technology in that?

  • m3kw9 5 minutes ago

    Something about ufo conspiracy theories.

  • F7F7F7 2 hours ago

    Turns out scientists die too?

    • ozten an hour ago

      > the concentration of deaths and disappearances within such a small, specialized field as defying ordinary probability.

      The best conspiracy theory I've seen online is that top-secret energy/weapons plans were sold by a traitor, and these scientists were kidnapped to be the worker bees.

      Terribly dark and implausible, but also, we are living through a storyline that writers wouldn't even consider a draft because it's too on-the-nose.

      • deathlight 16 minutes ago

        Now that's a fun one, where did you hear that from? Other ones I've seen include; tit for tat revenge for the assassination of Iranian nuke scientists; a global conspiracy of illuminati/masons/"jews" (defined so broadly as to be useless); chinese interdiction (kidnapping, a-la the reverse of the subplot in nolan's the dark knight film - that is essentially what you said); bankers who own everything and subvert everything to their interests (which remains stickily plausible to me); of course we can't forget our favorite: ancient aliens been doing all of this from the beginning. Anything to absolve people of confronting their own DNA and the predator/prey dichotomy that rules most life forms.

  • imglorp 2 hours ago

    How many of the disappearances were defections?

  • ghstinda 2 hours ago

    Doesn't seem connected, but makes a nice film. I think ignorance is bliss and due to the current climate, many people checking out...