Avi Loeb

And I said, I don't think anything.

I'm just talking about this object, which is unusual.

And that's all we need to pay attention to.

You didn't know that there was going to be this firestorm?

No, I didn't.

But soon enough, I realized...

that it actually creates my life in a very turbulent way because my colleagues in academia got very upset.

The strongest force in academia is jealousy.

That's well known.

And when they saw all the attention directed towards what I'm talking about, they immediately started to say negative things about the proposal and then shifted towards negative things about me.

And those are people who are either mediocre scientists that I've never met

or popularizers of science that did not publish a single scientific paper in their career that are frustrated with the fact that they never had an academic position.

And so they attack me, a practitioner of science that writes paper when they don't write any scientific paper.

as if they are protecting science from me.

How many papers had you published up until 2017?

800, 900?

Something like that, yeah.

So they discount all of that work.

That's why I started today with the farm and Talpiot and all of that, because your background, usually when you do these, we jump right into aliens.

But I wanted people to understand that you're an exceptional person with an impeccable record that you're now under fire from the same journals that published your papers in three days.