“Loeb is just starting a scientific conversation debate discourse argument process! This is how science is done!”
(1) Those “papers” he keeps churning out are nothing but a citation to actual research in astronomy or astrophysics with results that are interesting or maybe even unexpected but still parsimoniously explained by mundane phenomena followed by “aliens did it” with no further evidence or argument. If anyone who isn’t a celebrity (like he is for some reason) submitted such low-effort manuscripts they would get rejected for being trivial and pointless.
(2) He’s not interested in advancing science as evidenced by his repeated substanceless ad hominem attacks against serious SETI researchers and the fact that he constantly tells people criticising his papers to read his non-peer-reviewed books.














