The article might be too hasty to report that he's Jewish, especially implying that was the motive by including it in the article title. Lots of chatter X/Twitter about it.

Kinda crazy (scary?) how fast tragic events like this get instantly politicized on social.

Given his background somehow doubt he is jewish, could be pro-israel. But all this could well be totally unrelated to the event itself.

Isnt it more likely that's due to him living in the US or the Terminator hypothesis?

It's possibly related to mistaken identity. There's apparently some guy with a similar name that has some tie to Israel. Articles and social just seem to be running with it without any fact checking.

“Renowned for his pioneering research on plasma dynamics - the component of blood that carries platelets and cells throughout the body - Loureiro also focused on harnessing clean fusion energy to combat climate change. He was appointed director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center in May”

The Hebrew version doesn't seem to have that error, I wonder what they used to translate it, it feels like a rare hallucination for recent LLMs.

I can believe that our dystopian future will be powered by dark fusion reactors that only achieve containment through human sacrifice

Holy shit, they really wrote it there

I wonder if that's some particularly sloppy AI writing or if he really was working in biology (apparently he pioneered research on blood plasma) while also working on fusion energy. Bro was either a 10x professor or AI is just doing AI things I guess. Either way RIP.

it's slop. (If you look at the ORCID link posted elsethread there's literally nothing biology related in his 70 publications in the last two decades - and it seems unlikely one would become director of the PSFC with that sort of distraction...)

I can't spot anything conspiratorial in that article, though?

There are already other articles claiming he was shot because he's Jewish and has supported Israel. Seems like the cops haven't arrested anybody yet, so we don't really know anything.

He was working on fusion technology, so you could just as well speculate it was fossil fuel interests involved, but that also seems purely speculative.

First thing that came to mind is that he might have been secretly working for Israel's nuclear program but this is all very speculative. It does feel plausible though given that Israel has already assassinated plenty of Iranian nuclear scientists; so there is some precedent for it.

It does sound like something Iran might to in retaliation.

There are lots of different scenarios you can conjure up. Another could be that Israel assassinated him after he refused to support their nuclear program OR to silence him.

That, OTOH, doesn't sound like something Israel would do at all.

>He was working on fusion technology

BigFission

We'll probably find out it was mugging.

Or something intensely personal completely unrelated to politics. Could be a disgruntled student, lover, business partner, etc.

Horses, not zebras.

Please don't link to such a rag. There's absolutely nothing of substance in this article and even several glaring factual mistakes.

And you're saying that based on what? You should hide your antisemitism better.