On August 8th, 2010, sometime in the late evening, investment banker, oil industry insider and energy advisor to President George W. Bush, Matthew Simmons, put on a pair of swimming trunks, climbed into his hot tub at his Maine home and attempted to relax after a long day’s work. By 10:00pm Simmons had been found dead, floating in the hot tub of an apparent drowning.
The medical examiner later determined that Simmons had suffered a heart attack. What remains unclear is if Simmons suffered a heart attack that led to the drowning, or if he suffered a heart attack while drowning.
The former scenario would seem to be the most probable explanation, especially considering that Simmons was a 67-year-old man, to which these things happen. But, if he suffered a heart attack while drowning, it begs the question: How does a grown man drown in a hot tub? Let your imagination consider the possibilities.
Within hours of Simmons death, theories of what really caused his death began to emerge—conspiracy theories. Some in the blogosphere have suggested Simmons, a proponent of peak oil and a man critical of British Petroleum’s response to the BP Oil spill, had been targeted by the corporation. Others suggested it had been the CIA—that Simmons had been put on a Kill List that the Obama administration keeps, allowing them to assassinate threats to national security. And then there were the fringe individuals who believe Simmon’s death was a conspiracy involving the federal government and BP.
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