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I believe there were 7

Edit0: Nope - 32 whistleblower complaints in the last three years, but I imagine some of those could be from the same person - so up to 32. https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/4/19/boeing-subject-o...

Something something survivorship bias plane meme. But maybe that one's in poor taste under the circumstances.

Would punch too many holes in the argument :)

Either way, boeing looks kinda suspect here...

Small number of whistle-blowers: boeing looks pretty suspect, because why do they keep dying?

Large number of whistle-blowers: boeing looks pretty suspect, because why so many?

Yes, 2 out of how many? The denominator is important here.

And the denominator isn't just the number of Boeing whistleblowers but the number of similar cases where whistleblowers could have died and raised suspicions, but didn't. We can't just cherry pick the Boeing example after the fact.

Yeah, so perhaps there's no conspiracy of assassination. But if you're so shady that SO many people have come forward to blow the whistle that MULTIPLE are likely to die purely by chance in the course of investigation - you probably deserve whatever suspicion you're getting by that point.