Isn't it evidence of "disappearings" that we know many people were transported to a prison in El Salvador but nobody knows who those people in fact are?

As far as I've seen from the press the government hasn't released any documentation about who they flew to El Salvador. Or have they?

If that is true then isn't it also true that this scientist in question might as well be in that Salvadorean prison, as far as we know?

It was only in retrospect that we learned the true horror of the Holocaust.

Given that period of history, and how it brought the world to the brink, any patterning closely similar to that (which we are seeing today) these things should be considered happening until it can be proven otherwise.

Complacency and a lack of accountability in the moment is how these things happen, and turn good people to sloth.

Saying "Trust us", just isn't going to cut it given the existing state of no credibility that is a consequence of over a half century of bad acting and abuse of authority, and the trusted news initiative (which is not trustable).

If the "unhinged conspiracy theories" turn out to be at least partially true, I'm sure we'll find out it's happening regularly, but only started within the last few weeks. This could easily be the first of the "we would have seen it" cases, not some unexplainable solitary incident.

> the known facts don't match a government disappearing program as well as they match other possible explanations.

Maybe? The known facts about the way he was removed from his university job and web presence with absolutely no explanation and being referred to the FBI when asked for reasons arguably matches better with a government disappearing program then any of the other possible explanations offered around.