As the Trump administration investigates a wave of missing and dead scientists that has drawn widespread attention and online speculation, a former colleague of two of the scientists at the center of the inquiry is pushing back against claims of a broader conspiracy. Dr. Joe Masiero, lead scientist for the Near-Earth Object Surveyor at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC) at the California Institute of Technology, told Newsweek he does not believe the cases are connected by any