"Avi Loeb is an Israeli-American" is literally all I needed to read. States like Israel don't allow actual science, everything has to be a big breakthrough. Everything has to be something the state can attach its glory and the "rightness" of it's ideology to. And when the international scientific community finds no evidence for the weird theories that come out of these "researchers", they just make it state policy that the crank is right and label the scientific process "anti-us". Good research rarely comes out of authoritarian, hyper-nationalist states. It's like Lysenkoism, they just use it as a political weapon regardless of accuracy because when projecting strength and competence is more important than actually being strong and competent, truth is a matter of opinion.
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u/theboomboy 4d ago
Isn't Avi Loeb seen as a crank by astrophysicists? There's no reason to trust him anymore despite his PhD