[Right Wing Professor]

Hate to pour cold water on a good conspiracy theory, but Wiley could not even loosely be described as a microbiologist. He was an x-ray crstallographer, a biophysicist, whose specialty was crystal structures.

And, since I know from direct personal knowledge that one of the five is not as he was described, you should understand I'm instantly a wee bit skeptical about the other four

[uvular]

Whatever Wiley was, I'm just curious as to the cause of his death. It just seemed odd the way his car was pointed in the wrong direction, and family and friends said he was in good spirits, etc., before his death.

[Mitchell]

I think it's fair to call Wiley a microbiologist. His research program was the study of the first stages of viral infection (how the virus's proteins start the infection, and how the host body's proteins start to fight back). But, yes, he was also an expert in X-ray crystallography, that being the major technique he used.

I agree with you that this conspiracy theory is unfounded. Of the scientists who have been named in article like this, I think Wiley's death is the only mysterious one. There is no series of mysterious deaths and disappearances of scientists since 9/11. (Also, the Mahoney murder from the Clinton era is completely unrelated; why is that here at all?)

Wiley's case is strange, though, and should be investigated. I'm interested in what the autopsy will say.