Re: As life imitates Isaac Asimov, again [a]

On Tue, 28 Feb 2023 08:52:18 GMT, Charles Packer <[email protected]>
wrote:

>On Mon, 27 Feb 2023 22:54:28 +0000, danny burstein wrote:
>
>> In <[email protected]> Mike Van Pelt =
<[email protected]>
>> writes:
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>>>In article <[email protected]>,
>>>danny burstein  <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>[Associated Press]
>>>>
>>>>Family sues after nuclear physicist's death in Virginia jail
>>>>
>>>>Falls Church, VA - The family of a nuclear physicist who died by
>>>>suicide in a Virginia jail is suing the U.S. government after his
>>>>psychotropic medicine was discontinued and he was denied admission to=
 a
>>>>federal medical prison.
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>>>Bank robbery and carjacking.   That is *not* what I was expecting when=
 I
>>>googled this.  (He apparently had serious mental health issues.)
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>> Well, if you were bumping against the alien (as in extra terrestrial)
>> mind control rings, you'd have problems, too..
>
>It turns out that this story has several rabbit holes to go down
>that I'm resisting for the moment. The mention that his father,
>Ralph Lapp, worked on the Manhattan Project seemed gratuitous,
>for example. Look him up, and you'll find that Wikipedia calls him
>a physicist, but his output of books makes him seem more like a
>journalist. One of them, "Man and Space: The Next Decade" is in=20
>the isfdb. As for the son, there seems to have been no news=20
>coverage of his offenses or prosecution before his suicide.

Perhaps he was in so deep that his very /existence/ was classified.
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