Avi Loeb was the author of any number of crappy articles in Scientific American. Once I saw his name I started to skip over them. After a while Scientific Ameri

Avi Loeb was the author of any number of crappy articles in Scientific American. Once I saw his name I started to skip over them. After a while Scientific American stopped publishing them. The only thing you really need to know about this guy is he's a self promoter – it's not about {subject}, it's about him.