Not sure about that. Think of Avi Loeb, for example, a brilliant astrophysicist and Harvard professor who recently became convinced that the interstellar object

Not sure about that. Think of Avi Loeb, for example, a brilliant astrophysicist and Harvard professor who recently became convinced that the interstellar objects traversing the solar system are actually alien probes scouting the solar system. He’s started a program called "Galileo" now to find the aliens and prepare people for the truth. So I don’t think brilliance protects from derailing…