Wasn't there something similar with scientists recently? I wonder how much of that is just statistical noise.

YesThatTom2 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That turned out to be false. Normal attrition / vacation time.

	▲	Loquebantur 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's gross disinformation and patently untrue.

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cyanydeez 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yes, there was a lot of statistical noised amplified by the conspiracy theorist media.

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dijksterhuis 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

yep, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyw9rpdl4po

> "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."

> Louise Grillmair, similarly, says that - while her husband "would laugh" at speculation that the deaths might be connected - he would also "probably talk statistically" to squelch conspiracies.

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inigyou 5 hours ago | parent [-]

AI wrote the second quote

	▲	Loquebantur 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Probably, more importantly: it's a lie.