In the News
A Harvard professor is risking his reputation to search for aliens. Tech tycoons are bankrolling his quest.
Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb thinks it's time for the scientific community to get over its bias against UFOs.
In the past few years, the renegade professor has set the astrophysics world on fire by claiming that it was reasonable to suggest extraterrestrial intelligence was behind two recent discoveries.
Several of Loeb's peers are galled. They say he's overreaching, repeating the axiom that an extraordinary claim requires extraordinary evidence.
"Loeb is on a mission to find aliens. He believes he sees something in the data hundreds of experts don't, and he wants to make you believe too," Steven Desch, an astrophysicist at Arizona State University, told Business Insider.
