• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    His “single-minded search” includes endless evidence-free speculation, such as Oumuamua being an interstellar craft and small metal nodules being from a crashed ship.

  • EpsilonVonVehron@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Story is paywalled unfortunately.

    The true believer ufo community relies heavily on appeals from authority. Aircraft pilots are ‘trained observers’ who are infallible and Loeb pulls his authority as a supposed expert from his scientific background. That skinwalker alien tv show is a prime example of the fallacy of an appeal from authority. Thankfully many of these ‘experts’ get thoroughly debunked by a retired video game programmer. Methinks the professor does profess too much.