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Seattle Times: Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died

Another Boeing whistleblower has died, although it's going to be tricky to prove foul play on this one since he developed a life-threatening infection that led to respiratory failure after two weeks in the hospital.

I'm flashing back to when I had pneumonia in 2014; it wasn't a fun experience. I feel sorry for him and his family.

This would be an unremarkable story except for a previous whistleblower who was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in an apparent suicide. The conspiracy theories are of course out in force, but I find it difficult to see how it could be a malicious act... unless Boeing has a secret bioweapons division.

Edited by Fighteer on May 4th 2024 at 11:04:59 AM

I really don't want to be defending or arguing in favour of tinfoil hat theories, but I am sure it is possible to deliberately infect someone with a diseases w/o needing a bioweapons division.

Yeah, but it's an extremely risky and unreliable method of assassination, especially if you want to avoid collateral damage.

Because we all know Boeing is concerned about collateral damage

Can we please not turn into conspiracy theorists? It's a disturbing occurrence but not proof of anything... yet.

Hospitalar lung infections wouldn't be something you can just give to people that easily.

And even then, there isn't even a guarantee that it would work due to how each person's immune system responds and antibiotics.

Once is misfortune.

Twice is coincidence.

Thrice is deliberate action.