Avi Loeb

I think so.

I think the biggest impact is not on me.

I don't really care.

By now, my skin is titanium.

I don't get scratched by those remarks.

And people will read your research, whether it's in the journal or not.

But I worry about the young people because if I were a young person entering the field, I would be very worried about saying something different than the community says because it would impact my chances of getting tenure.

So if you had a student who was going to publish something that could be controversial, you would advise them not to publish it?

Yes.

No, they would immediately see the reality.

I had students that published with me on these topics.

And they see that and say, that's completely unfair.

But the next step is that they move to something far more traditional and work on topics that everyone else knows.

And then it's very easy to publish because then you basically say what other people said before with nuances.

You don't need, in fact, people forget what happened five, 10 years ago.

So you can even repeat a paper that was 10 years ago, repeat exactly the details, but write it in a slightly different way using AI and you have a new paper that will be accepted quickly.

for publication and so they realize that it's a shortcut but they have this is their chance for survival and unfortunately it's not the most intellectually creative people who are selected by this environment toxic environment it's the people who are bowing to authority

And we know from the past history of science that sometimes you can't bow to authority.

And my argument about this subject is it goes beyond that because in other parts of science, people are not following the narrative of paying attention to experiment.

Here, if you pay attention to anomalies, you face a very tough battle to publish.