It's not safe to be a microbiologist - Part whatever

Right here on the MU campus, a Korean scientist's body was found dead in the trunk of his car, which was set on fire in one of the parking garages. Pretty bizarre stuff for this town.

Steve Quayle, a self-published author and newsletter writer from Bozeman, Mont., told listeners of "Coast to Coast AM" that Im was the 40th microbiologist to die under suspicious circumstances in four years and was perhaps among those specializing in vaccines and bio-weapons research.

MU officials have described Im as a protein chemist whose specialty was synthesizing peptides.

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Quayle said he has followed bio-weapons issues for 30 years but said he started chronicling the deaths of microbiologists on www.stevequayle.com after a missile in October 2001 downed a passenger jet carrying five Israeli scientists over the Black Sea. Over the next several months, 11 microbiologists around the world died in various circumstances.

After last week’s "Coast to Coast" show, the Tribune received numerous e-mails and phone calls from people around the country who accept Quayle’s idea. "The pattern that’s emerging would be disturbing to any statistician," said Bill Stockglausner of Columbia. "The list is factual, and it appears strange that this is happening to these people who were in a certain profession."
  Columbia Tribune article

A list of the mysteriously deceased scientists is on my web page here.