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Avi Loeb is a Fraud Now

I saw this video on YouTube about Harvard’s answer to Erich von Däniken and thought I should share it. The introduction to it reads:

Avi Loeb is a Harvard astronomer turned pseudoscience-peddling fraud. Since 2017 he’s been spewing horseshit about how everything is aliens when it definitely isn’t, just to sell a bunch of books to credulous laypeople. Predictably, when the scientific community politely pushes back on his bullshit, he throws a toddler tantrum. I wonder what will happen if someone exposes him in a not so polite manner? Let’s find out.

Here is the video

For supplementary reading I suggest: Ethan Siegel’s Forbes article; Desch and Jackson about Avi’s spherule manuscript: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.07699; and the following blog piece by Josh Hedgepeth

Extra Ordinary: Harvard’s Avi Loeb’s absurd claims

Read these carefully. There will be a test next week.

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    andyinkuwait Says:
    July 30, 2025 at 12:28 pm

    You may want to see Martin Rees’ comment on this as he is a friend of Avi. It can be found on an interview with Michael Shermer last week on The Michael Shermer Show. He was a lot more forgiving than others. Here’s the link: 42.25 onwards – a very interesting perspective without the insults.https://www.skeptic.com/michael-shermer-show/are-we-alone-martin-rees-on-aliens-the-fermi-paradox-the-fate-of-humanity/

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