THIS ESSAY IS SO GOOD. I don't know that I've ever read an essay so thoroughly saturated with sarcasm and yet devastatingly accurately shredding someone's stupid ideas. This is the kind of essay our world needs right now.

https://medium.com/@steve.desch/this-is-not-the-quality-of-pseudoscience-infotainment-to-which-i-have-grown-accustomed-34268f892ba8

"We’ve come to count on Loeb to turn legitimately exciting space discoveries into aliens, aliens, aliens with the regularity of movies in the Spider Man franchise"