<![CDATA[Dammit do I really have to provide comments to a journalist on another awful Avi Loeb paper?]]>Dammit do I really have to provide comments to a journalist on another awful Avi Loeb paper? I am super tired of this guy.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/38ce7db8-8e03-4e33-8a83-0435b7d8e822/dammit-do-i-really-have-to-provide-comments-to-a-journalist-on-another-awful-avi-loeb-paperRSS for NodeFri, 05 Jun 2026 23:09:18 GMTThu, 04 Jun 2026 14:57:18 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Dammit do I really have to provide comments to a journalist on another awful Avi Loeb paper? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:35:52 GMT]]>@sundogplanets I didn't know him, and risked looking him up. Interesting. Black holes and exoplanets, getting funding for real projects by scaring people with extraterrestrials, and last but not least "tends to publish before peer review" according to Wikipedia

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://drupal.community/users/Klara/statuses/116692808688181873https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://drupal.community/users/Klara/statuses/116692808688181873Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:35:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Dammit do I really have to provide comments to a journalist on another awful Avi Loeb paper? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:09:50 GMT]]>@sundogplanets Even informed laypeople are tired of this guy. If his cat farted too audibly he'd probably write a whole paper about how invisible extra-terrestrial lifeforms are walking among us and communicating via feline anal emissions.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/ApostateEnglishman/statuses/116692706325511560https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/ApostateEnglishman/statuses/116692706325511560Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:09:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Dammit do I really have to provide comments to a journalist on another awful Avi Loeb paper? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:08:34 GMT]]>@astrojoachim @sundogplanets

The claims are what keeps media attention going. Because "might have been aliens, woohoo" is always newsworthy with a media landscape where the scientific education of journalists is sadly and utterly lacking. It got a high entertainment value. Whereas "this was a piece of rock (or ice)" is not very entertaining and will not generate follow-up stories.

Climate science was caught in a similar trap for more than a decade. All scientists were like 99% sure there would be a problem. Media coverage: "There are voices who says it's just the sun spots" and kept both-siding the issue with 50:50 coverage (if even 50 for climate science).

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/glitzersachen/statuses/116692701284359462https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/glitzersachen/statuses/116692701284359462Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:08:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Dammit do I really have to provide comments to a journalist on another awful Avi Loeb paper? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:04:48 GMT]]>@glitzersachen @sundogplanets @annaghughes

"Zinger"
🔥

Good one.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/TrueNorthSpice/statuses/116692686494874396https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/TrueNorthSpice/statuses/116692686494874396Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:04:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Dammit do I really have to provide comments to a journalist on another awful Avi Loeb paper? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:03:47 GMT]]>@TrueNorthSpice @sundogplanets @annaghughes

Yes. But he was too lazy to write a novel on this, so opted to write short story in a format called "scientific paper".

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/glitzersachen/statuses/116692682482918279https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/glitzersachen/statuses/116692682482918279Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:03:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Dammit do I really have to provide comments to a journalist on another awful Avi Loeb paper? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:47:35 GMT]]>@sundogplanets

we say: da nich für.
means: you are welcome

maybe that link is for the journalist helpfull
https://www.geo.de/wissen/weltall/aliens-spionieren-uns-aus--die-ideen-dieses-harvard-forschers-nerven-nur-noch-35999432.html

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.anoxinon.de/users/brickflyer/statuses/116692618809623050https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.anoxinon.de/users/brickflyer/statuses/116692618809623050Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:47:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Dammit do I really have to provide comments to a journalist on another awful Avi Loeb paper? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:45:39 GMT]]>@sundogplanets Is that man still at it with his ridiculous nonsense ugh why does the press give him any time at all

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.ie/users/oisin/statuses/116692611171687739https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.ie/users/oisin/statuses/116692611171687739Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:45:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Dammit do I really have to provide comments to a journalist on another awful Avi Loeb paper? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:44:26 GMT]]>@michael_w_busch KY26. I'm hoping for a Jonathan McDowell arXiv paper soon

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/sundogplanets/statuses/116692606437059823https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/sundogplanets/statuses/116692606437059823Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:44:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Dammit do I really have to provide comments to a journalist on another awful Avi Loeb paper? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:43:08 GMT]]>@brickflyer Yes it is, and that's the best possible response, thanks

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/sundogplanets/statuses/116692601293491338https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/sundogplanets/statuses/116692601293491338Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:43:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Dammit do I really have to provide comments to a journalist on another awful Avi Loeb paper? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:41:03 GMT]]>@sundogplanets
if ky26: tell them they just have to wait until 2031 hayabusa2 will clear things. meanwhile they can just figure out by them selfes how reliable that guy is...

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.anoxinon.de/users/brickflyer/statuses/116692593119623029https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.anoxinon.de/users/brickflyer/statuses/116692593119623029Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:41:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Dammit do I really have to provide comments to a journalist on another awful Avi Loeb paper? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:31:00 GMT]]>@sundogplanets I’d prepare a standard answer like, “That man is a perpetual fraud. Here are ten interesting papers to report on from actual scientists: …”

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/thomasfuchs/statuses/116692553615274604https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/thomasfuchs/statuses/116692553615274604Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:31:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Dammit do I really have to provide comments to a journalist on another awful Avi Loeb paper? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:28:38 GMT]]>@sundogplanets

You'd be hysterical, too, if you only knew...

31/ATLAS is not an innocent scientific probe from the Great Beyond. No. It's even more sinister than Panspermia. More terrifying than a Berserker probe. It's Berserkerest - a hunter-killer machine sent eons ago by aliens (long dead now) to terminate a physicist with a "brain the size of a planet".

Something or someone is breaking apart now. Watch out for those individually targeted Berserkerites. 😉

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Avi Loeb: "The New 3I/ATLAS Images Show Something That Shouldn’t Be Possible!" - Archaeology and Ancient Civilizations

You now say this is not only an alien spaceship, but it’s nuclear-powered. Why are you saying that? >> 10 gigawatts of power. That’s the energy signature coming from the mysterious object 3I/Atlas. And it shouldn’t be possible. This interstellar traveler was supposed to be a simple comet, a dirty snowball reflecting the sun’s rays. […]

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Archaeology and Ancient Civilizations (newstangail24.com)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/oldclumsy_nowmad/statuses/116692544270738309https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/oldclumsy_nowmad/statuses/116692544270738309Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:28:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Dammit do I really have to provide comments to a journalist on another awful Avi Loeb paper? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:23:06 GMT]]>@sundogplanets the man who single-handedly turned "Harvard astronomer" into a term of opprobrium

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://autistics.life/users/joshsusser/statuses/116692522559442469https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://autistics.life/users/joshsusser/statuses/116692522559442469Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:23:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Dammit do I really have to provide comments to a journalist on another awful Avi Loeb paper? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:20:42 GMT]]>@sundogplanets

KY26 or his latest lies about parabolic meteors?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/michael_w_busch/statuses/116692513122159541https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/michael_w_busch/statuses/116692513122159541Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:20:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Dammit do I really have to provide comments to a journalist on another awful Avi Loeb paper? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:09:08 GMT]]>@sundogplanets

Ever see the movie Catfish? Loeb is that catfish in the tank keeping the rest of us awake and alert, rolling our eyes and debunking.

Scienterrific American jumped the shark eons ago.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/teledyn/statuses/116692467585605332https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/teledyn/statuses/116692467585605332Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:09:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Dammit do I really have to provide comments to a journalist on another awful Avi Loeb paper? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:08:47 GMT]]>@sundogplanets this fucking guy!!!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://flipping.rocks/users/nev/statuses/116692466262450849https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://flipping.rocks/users/nev/statuses/116692466262450849Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:08:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Dammit do I really have to provide comments to a journalist on another awful Avi Loeb paper? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:05:37 GMT]]>@sundogplanets That he still gets attention is just crazy. Geez. How many false claims about aliens must there be before he stops getting media coverage?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodonsweden.se/users/astrojoachim/statuses/116692453786041624https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodonsweden.se/users/astrojoachim/statuses/116692453786041624Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:05:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Dammit do I really have to provide comments to a journalist on another awful Avi Loeb paper? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:05:00 GMT]]>@sundogplanets @annaghughes

Is that the one who believes a comet was actually a piece of engineered something made by aliens?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/TrueNorthSpice/statuses/116692451330211245https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/TrueNorthSpice/statuses/116692451330211245Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:05:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Dammit do I really have to provide comments to a journalist on another awful Avi Loeb paper? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:02:53 GMT]]>@sundogplanets he's just so good at sniffing out what people want to hear. he definitely got me once. never again.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://thepit.social/users/peter/statuses/116692443039518937https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://thepit.social/users/peter/statuses/116692443039518937Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:02:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Dammit do I really have to provide comments to a journalist on another awful Avi Loeb paper? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:01:51 GMT]]>@sundogplanets why do they keep asking you about used toilet paper 🧻?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.sdf.org/users/nada_bio_entity2/statuses/116692438970944092https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.sdf.org/users/nada_bio_entity2/statuses/116692438970944092Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:01:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Dammit do I really have to provide comments to a journalist on another awful Avi Loeb paper? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:00:19 GMT]]>@annaghughes Good. Stay angry. That dude apparently still requires it.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/sundogplanets/statuses/116692432939395638https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/sundogplanets/statuses/116692432939395638Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:00:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Dammit do I really have to provide comments to a journalist on another awful Avi Loeb paper? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:59:33 GMT]]>@sundogplanets even years after leaving the astro world his name still makes me angry

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/annaghughes/statuses/116692429943922681https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/annaghughes/statuses/116692429943922681Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:59:33 GMT