"...... Prof Wadhams said that in the weeks after Prof Laxon’s death he believed he was targeted by a lorry which tried to force him off the road. He reported the incident to the police.
Asked if he thought hitmen might have been behind the deaths, Prof Wadhams, who is Professor of ocean physics at Cambridge University, told The Telegraph: “Yes. I do believe assassins possibly murdered them but I can see that I would be thought of as a looney for believing this.
"But it’s just very odd coincidence that something like that should happen in such a brief period of time.”
He added: “They [the deaths] were accidents as far as anybody was able to tell but the fact they were clustered like that looked so weird.”
Asked who might have wanted them out the way, he replied: “I can only think of the oil lobby but I don’t think the oil lobby goes around killing people.”
He admitted it would have been "stupid" to go to the police with his concerns over the three deaths, not least because he was "suspicious" of the authorities - he cited the example of the death of the government’s weapons expert Dr David Kelly....."
I like my big chocolate chip cookies chock full of academia nuts
Pass the milk.
“when he was struck by lightning and killed instantly.”
MY GOD! He was assassinated by lightning! That really, really scares me. Imagine, the climate deniers being able to program lightning to kill phony scientists. I had no idea that could happen.
What’s next? Toilet bowls that flush them or their personal parts down the drain at will?
Oh! The horror of it all.
The good professor should tighten the chinstrap on his tin foil cap when he ventures out.
Yes, he was definitely assassinated. Are the dogs ok?
Falling down stairs ... hmmmm
Hit by truck ... maybe
Struck by lightning ... Then I KNEW it was George Bush!