You didn't address me specifically, but that's never stopped me before. ;-) I know you were probably saying that in jest, but I want to make a comment to everyone about this.
No, we're not going off the deep end by gathering facts and then theorizing from those facts. To avoid creating an atmosphere of 'wild-eyed speculation,' it's important to gather the facts first and then hypothesize and brainstorm. From what I can see, that's exactly what we're doing. We're simply "adding to the body of knowledge." :-)
It's likely that this "unusual" mortality rate among physicians and scientists is not unusual at all and we're only noticing because of the current events since 9/11. But nonetheless, we have at least eight years worth of "unusual" deaths that have preceded this, so it would be stupid not to keep an open mind about it and look for patterns and correlations. It's quite disconcerting to think of the possibilities here and very tempting to automatically dismiss it as NutWing/Paranoid thinking to avoid thinking about it, but under the current circumstances, we can't afford to do that.
Many of these deaths are turning out to be caused by things such as enraged wives, Goth cults, and the like, but that shouldn't stop us from examining each and every one.