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How many whistleblowers have there been and what’s the demographic? Not to be too much of a downer but if there are a good number of whistleblowers and they’re
by afavour 3y ago
How many whistleblowers have there been and what’s the demographic? Not to be too much of a downer but if there are a good number of whistleblowers and they’re over-represented by retirement age men that have worked in production plants all their lives then there is some level of morbidity to be expected.
But also: yeah, when you look at it face on it’s absolutely wild that there have been two whistleblower deaths.
- bfdm 3y agoThis one was 45 years old.
- sarimkx 3y agoAnd what do they even mean by "sudden illness"??
- micromacrofoot 3y agoInfluenza and MRSA — allegedly the MRSA was contracted before hospitalization, which is odd. Though MRSA would also be an odd way to try to intentionally kill someone.
- dyauspitr 3y agoMRSA, the article mentions it.
- afavour 3y agoThe point still stands. There ought to be some level of statistical analysis to tell you how likely an event this is rather than immediately reaching for the conspiracy theory lever.
- sarimkx 3y agoI was not alluding to any conspiracies. In that "statistical analysis" the company and more importantly the time must be factored in. Yes, I am sure out of all whistleblowers, all over the world, for all types of stories (war crimes, finance (insider trading), etc) there must many that do just die. But... 1. The same 'set' of whistleblowers (exposing manufacturing faults in Boing aircrafts) 2. In less than two months..! Not to mention not just at any time but during multiple ongoing investigations...?