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by colordrops 1250 days ago
Avi Loeb stepped up and he's getting shit on left and right for it, despite very strong credentials.
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bayesian_horse 1250 days ago
If you put out an extraordinary claim on extraordinarily weak evidence, that is usually what happens.
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colordrops 1249 days ago
What's weak about the evidence?
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a2800276 1250 days ago
On the other hand, he's likely the only astrophysicist apart from Neil Degrasse Tyson any non astrophysicist has ever heard of.
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adastra22 1250 days ago
Hawking? Einstein?
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JPLeRouzic 1250 days ago
Those are not astrophysicists but theoretical physicists?
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adastra22 1249 days ago
I’m not sure that is a real distinction. Astrophysics is a subfield of physics, and these men were physicists who dealt cosmology.
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a2800276 1250 days ago
They are also no longer among us. Sorry, should have qualified "living"
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