posted here a few days ago: [<i>harvard & aliens & crackpots: a disambiguation of Avi Loeb</i>](<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY985qzn7oI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY985qzn7oI</a>) by Angela Collier. It's 1h6m long but I was surprised about myself that I watched the entire thing and I guess it's because of the high quality of the presentation and the occasional deadpan remark that keep you awake. Talk about Avi Loeb specifically start at 24 minutes.<p>The most damning part of her takedown is probably when she shows zoom footage of a physicists' video conference and other snippets where Loeb is literally foaming with expletives directed mostly at fellow physicists, y'know, the Establishment who just wouldn't follow his by-now predictable but wholly unsupported jump from "I found mineral spherules on the bottom of the ocean" to "these must come from that deep space meteorite that I lately discovered" to "It's aliens!".<p>Collier is such a sound antidote to all that flaky and faky science coverage we're getting. For all the clear words that she finds she still leaves viewers with an open question: "So is Loeb a grifter? I don't think so. Is he a crackpot? Future will tell."
He thinks everything is alien technology.<p>All he has found is that he's willing to trade his credibility for some publicity. It's not very impressive.