It just does not work for Miniconda virtual environment when it is being executed in a background thread. As mentioned previously, "import scipy" works fine when it is executed in the main thread ...

patch_thread_module (t) File "c:\program files\microsoft visual studio\2022\preview\common7\ide\extensions\microsoft\python\core\debugpy_vendored\pydevd_pydev_bundle\pydev_monkey.py", line 1168, in ...