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A few months ago I exposed Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb as a grifting fraud, whose entire "scientific output" over the past decade or so, has been limited to unpublished preprints lying about astronomical phenomena that he then blasts to the media to garner fame and sell shitty books full of lies. He's completed two rounds of this behavior, first with exocomet 'Oumuamua, which he pretended was a spaceship, and then with a meteor that landed in the Pacific Ocean, which he also pretended was a spaceship, while he pretended to have retrieved fragments of it. Through this behavior he had already been known to be a massive fraud among the scientific community. But round three of the Avi Loeb grifter playbook has been in full effect since July of this year, with the discovery of exocomet 3I/ATLAS. He's been running his mouth about how this is aliens as well, lying through his teeth about every single aspect of this object, every single day, on any platform that will host him. He's gearing up for another shitty book and other blatant cash grabs, while also cuing up some other shady developments for himself, so let's take him down a notch by showing the world what a pathetic grifting fraud he's been regarding this object, shall we?

Early 3I/ATLAS paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08111
Jewitt paper: https://www.scribd.com/document/936634264/Jewitt-2025-ApJL-990-L2
Cordiner paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae0647

My first video on Avi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nYXIeZh_bw
My video on 'Oumuamua: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJCO97BpYIE
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