On examination, these claims collapse. The \u201cscientists\u201d actually worked in disparate fields, from chemical biology to plasma physics. Several were actually administrators. Two had retired. One died of natural causes; another in a shooting spree. In any case, as the debunker Mick West pointed out<\/a>, the \u201cUS top secret-cleared aerospace and nuclear workforce\u201d is around 700,000, so normal mortality rates would predict far more deaths over the 22 months concerned \u2013 about 4,000. Nonetheless, Congresspeople have been warning darkly of threats to \u201cnational security\u201d. The Trump administration has launched an investigation<\/a> into a phenomenon that is often said to go hand-in-hand with something called \u201cAlternative 3\u201d \u2013 whose origins might end up surprising Trump and co.<\/p>\n
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