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