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The Meaning Of Human Existence, And The Search For Alien Life - Avi Loeb

The Joe Walker Podcast

CHAPTER

The Resistance to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Many scientists shy away from controversial subjects or subjects that are of great interest to the public and sort of like isolating themselves in the ivory tower. The problem with the subject of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is that there are lots of science fiction literature and films about unidentified flying objects not up to scientific scrutiny of evidence. We should just be straightforward about things we know and things we don't know admit what we don't knows, says Dr Peter Higgs.

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