Skeptic magazine publishes statistical base-rate analysis of the missing-scientists narrative

Skeptic magazine publishes 'The Mystery of Missing and Dead Scientists, Explained', extending the late-April mainstream framing of the missing-scientists narrative beyond Snopes, PolitiFact and Wikipedia into the dedicated organisational home of the organised-skepticism community. The piece argues the unifying narrative fails on a base-rate test, citing the death of David Wilcock on 20 April as a representative example of cases the conspiracy framing absorbs without distinguishing them. It quotes the Boulder County Sheriff's Office emergency communications specialist's recorded suspicion that Wilcock was experiencing a mental health crisis. The piece also features the disappearance of retired Major General William Neil McCasland on 27 February in New Mexico, citing Mrs McCasland's account that her husband had been experiencing short-term memory loss, medical issues, anxiety and lack of sleep, and that she suspected he 'planned not to be found'. Skeptic's intervention completes the late-April pattern in which the organised mainstream-debunking ecosystem files the entire narrative under conspiracy-theory categorisation in the absence of a public agency briefing readout.