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Turf Wars on Aliens Getting Ugly
When Science calls the kettle black, look out, there’s going to be a street brawl.
The war over whether aliens exist or not is getting hot and personal. Elon Musk says no evidence for aliens. He is in good company! Afterall, Kirkpatrick just said that very thing before the Congress and the world the other day. Doctor Avi Loeb flexed his “I am a Harvard physicist,” muscles and said Musk is stupid. Okay, perhaps not as vulgar as I have made it. It was actually worse than that. ‘The gloves are off, Sir!’
I do have to warn you, though. I, too, am not left-handed.
Let’s lead with hubris. Musk also has some hubris. Both could have grandiosity, but I am not diagnosing the good Doctor , or Musk. They’re both well accomplished. That doesn’t rule out grandiosity…
“A lot of people ask me, you know, where are the aliens? And I think if anyone would know about aliens on Earth it would probably be me. I’m, you know, very familiar with space stuff. And I’ve seen no evidence of aliens,” he argued.
How many people? Define ‘a lot.’ That would be a more scientific question to start an argument. Mind you, a contradiction is not an argument. Also, just because you know a lot of space stuff doesn’t make you…