The simplest answer is random unconnected people die everyday, in the us, about 8k people a day, certainly patterns and narratives can be formed in the noise regardless of reality.

I think this scientists dying narrative is a psyop to distract from epstein and iran, trying to offer an enticing hidden third enemy

The headline and article all use past tense. Its lost.

How busy was this guy?! he seems to have had his finger in just about everything and everybody

I thought about signing up for my local indivisible protest, but upon reading their privacy statement, where they say they share your deviceId and other metadata with others i got really spooked and figured best to simply not do that - so naive of them to track and then rat out all their participants