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You now when you find out too much information and you’re just stuck with it, thinking “What the f, man?!” That’s the gist of Science Channel’s new show Deadly Intelligence. The series is eight episodes long and takes a look at the different scientists, inventors, and geniuses whose deaths may have actually been murders. Heavy shit, right? That’s what caught me when I first heard about the show. I like that it looks at multiple people of interests for each episode. Some widely known, some others perhaps not so much. History is full of unsolved mysteries, especially when it comes to deaths — Ehhh, Lemme rephrase that. History is full of mysterious deaths that are unsolved until governments release documents snitching on themselves years later. This is a running theme in the first two episodes of Deadly Intelligence. What you know may come back to haunt you
The first episode takes a look at Frank Olson. Olson was a CIA Biological Warfare Scientist. He died after falling out of a window. This seems like a suicide until you look at all the pieces. You may think this is just fan service for conspiracy theorists, but not in this case. There are too many elements that don’t add up. The show then delves deeper into what Frank Olson was involved in for the CIA. This is when it’s hard not to get upset as you see the weapons the military is developing. War is war tho, right? (*high pitched* ehhhhh) Well, you see how these weapons were tested on civilians without their knowledge. Fam, …
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