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The Fox News Rundown

Why Are Top U.S. Scientists Disappearing Or Dying?

The Fox News Rundown

FOX News Podcasts

News, Daily News, Politics

3.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

As questions mount over the mysterious disappearances and deaths among high-level researchers, national security concerns have been sparked, and the focus now shifts to whether or not these cases are directly linked to United States classified aerospace and weapons programs. Missouri Congressman Eric Burlison joins to discuss why the suspicious suicide of a former intelligence officer and the unexplained vanishing of researchers from NASA and the Los Alamos National Laboratory have prompted a formal request for an FBI investigation into the occurrences. As AI-driven layoffs hit major firms from Amazon to Meta, a growing sense of anxiety is taking hold of the American workforce. Recent headlines have even turned violent, with attacks targeting tech leaders and local officials, allegedly over job automation and data center fears. Futurist and author Jamie Metzl joins us to explain why he dismisses the idea of machines fully replacing people, advocating for a collaborative "human-plus-AI" model and a global moral framework to ensure this rapid transition remains a creative force rather than a destructive one. PLUS, commentary by Gregg Jarrett, FOX News legal analyst and commentator. PHOTO CREDIT: FOX NEWS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Jason Chaffetz.

0:01.1

I'm Ainsley, Your Heart.

0:02.1

I'm Brian Kilmead, and this is the Fox News Rundown.

0:09.1

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026.

0:13.3

I'm Dave Anthony.

0:14.6

It's a mystery.

0:15.8

Getting so much attention, Congress is now investigating.

0:19.8

Eleven people with ties to the scientific community have either died or gone missing the past

0:25.8

four years.

0:26.6

So it's really disturbing.

0:29.8

People don't normally walk out of their home without their cell phone, their keys,

0:34.6

their wallet.

0:35.2

It just never returned.

0:36.9

I'm Jessica Rosenthal. A shift may be coming in the way we think about the future of

0:41.3

the job market with the rise of artificial intelligence as morality and technology collide.

0:47.5

In these kinds of transitions, there is always pain and there is always opportunity.

0:52.9

And I wish that we, that that wasn't baked in to

0:57.6

the capitalist system, but it is. And I'm Greg Jarrett. I've got the final word on the Fox News

1:04.2

rundown. It's like something out of the X-Files.

1:12.4

And to some in Congress, the truth is out there.

1:15.3

As lawmakers start to investigate a mystery, getting more and more attention,

1:19.3

11 members of the scientific community have either died or disappeared in the past four years.

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