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Sure, but I'm not sure why we have to invent excuses for companies. They create them themselves just fine.

I wouldn't say "expecting horses and not zebra" is "creating excuses."

You can refrain from giving Boeing the benefit of the doubt here and still come to the conclusion "It's not weird that someone didn't recover from a respiratory infection during flu season."

I wonder how many whistleblowers (raw number or percentage) dying would cross the threshold where we don't give Boeing the benefit of doubt or explain it as a coincidence. Seems the answer so far on HN is "unknown but at least greater than two."

Me personally: I find the first death extremely suspicious and someone with MRSA dying in a hospital not very suspicious.

That's how the thread dismissed the last one.

Given that he died of MRSA in a hospital two weeks after falling ill, yes.