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868 The 'Missing-Scientist' Story Is Unbelievably Dumb

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 04/22/2026 16:00 EDT

The 'Missing-Scientist' Story Is Unbelievably Dumb

Longtime Slashdot reader mmarlett writes: The Atlantic has a long article on the story of missing scientists recently featured here on Slashdot. In short, it is an incoherent conspiracy theory that spreads wide and far, not paying any attention to boundaries of time, space, or area of expertise. "Which is all to say that another piece of flagrant nonsense has ascended to the highest levels of U.S. politics and media," writes the Atlantic's Daniel Engber. "To call it a conspiracy theory would be far too kind

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