Avi Loeb

Bill Maher keeps talking about him as an astrophysicist.

He is not an astrophysicist because he didn't publish any paper over the past- He's an entertainer.

Yeah, he's commenting on work that other people do that is popular within the mainstream.

His ambition is to be liked.

The best way to be liked is to repeat narratives that you hear, to basically follow the wind, where the wind blows.

If the wind will change direction, let's say the government, as a result of Trump's directive, President Trump, the government releases some data that is conclusive beyond any doubt,

Then Neil deGrasse Tyson will say, yeah, we suspected that.

I was talking about this possibility for years, but now we have the evidence.

Previously, we didn't.

Therefore, what I'm doing is right.

And these commentators will always follow the popular view, whatever other people are telling him, but they would not pioneer a new understanding of nature.

They would not be the ones to communicate

evidence is here because they don't seek the evidence and the whole point about doing science is the fun of seeking the evidence you know it's just like a kid i feel like a kid in a chocolate store you know in a candy store when i'm flooded with data because that allows me to argue that something is unusual because at some point when you have so much data

There is no way for a dogmatist to brush it under the carpet of traditional thinking.

They can't do that.

The only reason that they are still doing it because the data is not conclusive enough.

So I say, let's seek the data.

They say, no, we shouldn't seek that data because the chance of it existing is zero.

Isn't the most important thing in science just to say, I don't know?

They don't like to do that.