“This is an example from the modern world of what the Vatican did at the time of Galileo…People have their own prejudices. I don’t have any problem with that…The whole idea of doing science is to maintain an agnostic point of view, be curious, wonder over the possibilities…It’s what makes science exciting.”
-Statement by Israel-born Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb to The Times of Israel. He was referring to his submission of an academic paper about the 3I/ATLAS comet where the last sentence in the paper noted that the comet could be targeting our solar system. He was asked to remove this sentence if he wanted his paper to be published. Astronomer Loeb has made a number of controversial comments about this new comet as well as an earlier comet named ‘Oumuamua, which was the subject of his book Extraterrestrial:
The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth.
Our Awesome Universe 