I’m 100% behind discovery, exploration, study of all things space. I think you’d be hard pressed to find anything I said indicating otherwise. YourGalileo comment is way off base and entirely untrue.
With that said, it is obvious that the search for aliens is either completely a waste or a shell game used to garner support for projects that although worthwhile, might go unfunded without the shiny object chicanery. I prefer to believe the latter but I know a charlatan when I see one and Avi Loeb and Mitchy Kookoo are charlatans.