{"id":94487,"date":"2026-06-03T04:26:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T04:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/the-toll-of-a-missing-scientists-conspiracy-theory-on-the-families-left-behind\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T04:26:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T04:26:51","slug":"the-toll-of-a-missing-scientists-conspiracy-theory-on-the-families-left-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/the-toll-of-a-missing-scientists-conspiracy-theory-on-the-families-left-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"The Toll of a \u2018Missing Scientists\u2019 Conspiracy Theory on the Families Left Behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The claim that their loved ones\u2019 deaths and disappearances are linked is almost certainly false \u2014 but the loss remains real.<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/02\/science\/missing-scientists-conspiracy-theory-families.html\">NYT > Science<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The claim that their loved ones\u2019 deaths and disappearances are linked is almost certainly false \u2014 but the loss remains real. NYT > Science<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[493,1398,6508,1701,564,6018,1399,6661],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}