{"id":207689,"date":"2026-04-30T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T21:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/how-a-speculative-story-about-dead-and-missing-scientists-went-from-the-fringe-to-the-white-house\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T06:30:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:30:22","slug":"how-a-speculative-story-about-dead-and-missing-scientists-went-from-the-fringe-to-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/how-a-speculative-story-about-dead-and-missing-scientists-went-from-the-fringe-to-the-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"How a speculative story about dead and missing scientists went from the fringe to the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/04\/30\/us\/missing-scientists-media-conspiracy-theories-cec\">How a speculative story about dead and missing scientists went from the fringe to the White House<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/04\/30\/us\/missing-scientists-media-conspiracy-theories-cec\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/04\/30\/us\/missing-scientists-media-conspiracy-theories-cec<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-30 17:55:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnn.com\">www.cnn.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy raised questions about the deaths or disappearances of 10 American scientists with access to classified nuclear or aerospace material, suggesting these instances might be connected.<\/li>\n<li>The White House announced an investigation into the cases after Doocy\u2019s inquiries and comments from President Donald Trump.<\/li>\n<li>The House Oversight Committee also planned investigations, expressing concerns if the reports of these deaths and disappearances are true, as they could pose a severe threat to national security.<\/li>\n<li>The story originated from fringe media and conspiracy theorists like Daniel Liszt and Jessica Reed Kraus, whose claims started being picked up by independent and niche media outlets.<\/li>\n<li>Influential figures like Kraus, who had a significant social media following and connections to Trump&#8217;s inner circle, played roles in amplifying the story.<\/li>\n<li>The narrative gained traction in the mainstream media, with outlets like the Daily Mail, Fox News, and the New York Post spreading the claims widely.<\/li>\n<li>Despite its rise, investigations found many of these cases were unrelated and had conventional explanations; however, the attention caused by these conspiracy theories continued to grow.<\/li>\n<li>The story exemplifies how alternative narratives can influence mainstream discussions and governmental actions in contemporary politics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How a speculative story about dead and missing scientists went from the fringe to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-2273916471.jpg?c=16x9&q=w_800,c_fill","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207691,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207689\/revisions\/207691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}