Posted by acdanger 4 hours ago
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.”
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.
“Anthony Chavez, 79, worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory until he retired in 2017. He reportedly disappeared on May 8, 2025.”
The headline is accurate. The reporting is accurate.
Should CNN not report what the government is doing?
Or are you confused and assume that the investigation has returned and finding? Or maybe, we should highlight the things the government is doing.
Why do you find what the article is saying sane?
1. The story is promulgated by a long-retired ex-FBI analyst
2. Fox News picks it upand runs with it
3. Fox News watchers get excited about it on social media
4. Someone behind a desk at the FBI is assigned to pick up the phone and say tiredly “Yes, yes, we're investigating it all very seriously”
5.The FBI waits for the new Flavor of the Week to distract the Fox News people, then closes the investigation
Meantime, CNN reports on phase 4.
An disappearance of a retired major general without his personal possessions and someone committing suicide whilst due to testify in court, sure those things warrant an investigation even though those things happen as the result of mundane crime or mental breakdowns as well as conspiracy. But another thing entirely for the "nothing much to see in those Epstein files" FBI to spin the grand narrative that connecting all these dots is a legitimate question because UFOlogists on YouTube.
CNN was one of the biggest pushers of this hoax: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_drone_sight...
Here's a more substantial take on the whole thing that doesn't just blindly repeat everything without question: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/04/missing-scientis... You know, what journalism is actually supposed to be like.
This BBC article https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyw9rpdl4po also has this tidbit:
> "The US Top Secret-cleared aerospace and nuclear workforce is ~700,000 people," science writer, investigator and pseudoscience debunker Mick West wrote on 16 April on his Substack.
> "Ordinary mortality over 22 months predicts ~4,000 deaths, ~70 homicides, and ~180 suicides. The list has 10 … The deaths are real. The families' grief is real. The pattern is not."
But here, your paywall free link: https://archive.is/KNECz
There's no room for mistakes or even differences of opinions, and it's tearing us apart.
Part of it, I think, comes from the anonymous nature of online communications, and little to no ramifications to bad behavior. It's the end result of "I can do whatever I want, the established rules and societal norms don't apply anymore."
Whether the concern is real or not is precisely for the FBI to determine. National security is too serious to leave in the hands of random journalists and overly-comfortable citizens. I fully understand that the data is almost certainly a coincidence, but the consequences of being wrong are so serious that it's best to definitively rule it out.
> Separately, the Republican-led House Oversight Committee announced Monday it will investigate ...
So, do we not want the news reporting what the government is doing? That's the FBI, DoE, DoD, and the House Oversight Committee putting effort into this.
Like, no, i want this reported, not because there is anything that will come from it, but because we should report one what the government is doing.
Why do you think CNN should NOT report one what the government does?
Epstein is on record ‘silencing’ Pons cold fusion research.
Michael Hastings’ car crashed into a tree without signs of braking.
In his brother's own words, "I really rule out foul play entirely. I might have been suspicious if I hadn't been with him the day before he died. After all, he definitely was investigating and writing about a lot of sensitive subjects. But based on being with him and talking to people who were worried about him in the weeks leading up to his death, and being around him when he had had similar problems when he was younger, I was pretty much convinced that he wasn't in danger from any outside agency."
It's an exceptionally dumb conspiracy theory among many other exceptionally dumb ones.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/michael-hastings-interview_b_...
Remember those navy seals who were murdered by schizophrenic brothers of girlfriends?
Look into all the research of “voices in our heads.” And I’m sure you’re impressed by how well “gang stalking” and “targeted persons” is handled. Crazy crackpot schizophrenic conspiracy theories. And signs of a truly diabolical secret war upon us all.
I know, take meds and get help. That’s the byline of those who consider themselves sane.
I was gang stalked for years before being “press ganged” into a hooligan army or Power. I know Americas secrets, you just won’t listen. Like Cassandra, such are the most genuine prognostications among the incredulous.
The crazy people are those driven crazy. Look for those stories where otherwise normal people were “gaydon”. That where random people pretend the subject is “gay” even though they are not. Those sad people sometimes shoot up gaybars or gaybash because “they have the devil inside them.”
The “true” conspiracy of conspiracies is that we are not alone in our own minds and entire subcultures are dedicated to screwing with us. Everything these unfortunate peoples experience is sheer insanity. Their mental illness is cultivated.
And if you don’t “believe in” extra sensory perception (more apt term than the alternatives), then why do you know what “gaydar” is? Manipulating the sexuality of others (gender dysphoria) are among the games these so empowered love to play.
Hidden within the silliest things are occult secrets belying an unnatural order among us.
(there's more detail at the link, obvs.)
[0] https://www.stevennovella.com/neurologicablog/whats-with-the...
> 25 deaths per million people per day
That's not the same age range as actively practicing researchers.
Yes, perhaps by reading the link.
"I should point out I am using numbers for the general population, which may not match the rate for scientists. [...] I also looked at CDC data – about 800,000 people in the US between 25 and 65 die each year [...] About 6% of the population work in the science field, which would be 192,000, or half that if you use a narrow definition of 3%, so close to the 73,000 figure I calculated the other way."
He also looks at how that compares with the individual institutions.
But yes, "show some rigor" indeed!