Carlos Velazquez

Click bait headline to cash in on current UFO interest and to help a controversial, if not biased, scientist, Avi Loeb, who's findings are nothing but confirmation bias.

Loeb says: '...the data showed something new, never reported in the scientific literature. Science is guided by evidence.' Yes, science is guided by evidence, but you have to make sure you have a trustworthy baseline before arriving at this conclusion.

The obvious logical elephant in the room is that Loeb, or anybody, cannot possibly have an exhaustive and comprehensive catalog of ALL of Earth's minerals and, much worse for him, a reliable catalog of all the minerals on planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and the objects in the Oort cloud to make a claim that these fragments came from outside the solar system.

First ever 'alien' object is recovered on Earth by Harvard's Avi Loeb
dailymail.co.uk

Tim adds:

This is your usual overconfident statement to gin up excitement and draw funding. He cannot possibly know what he claims. Minerals from outside the solar system are not qualitatively different than those from inside, and he has nothing to compare it with anyway. How can he possibly know without having some minerals that are known to have come from outside the solar system to use as the baseline? If he was careful to qualify his findings with a huge "maybe" than fine, but this is so clearly aimed at making a splash. "Science" these days seems to involve dramatic claims without any solid foundation.

Here is the line that gets me:

"The notion of creating life in a laboratory may sound farfetched to most, but scientists have made single-celled organisms before"

No they have not. All that has ever been done is to use recombinant DNA to alter existing life forms. A world of difference between that and "creating single-celled organisms" which are incredibly complex systems beyond our ability to create.

Thus this whole thing is suspect.

Frankly I would say this is a kook atheist looking to find some way to explain away God and replace Him with aliens.

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