I wouldn't be so worried yet. Verlinde's theory is quite fresh and it will take time to conclusively rule out Standard Cosmological model. As of yet, no one has

I wouldn't be so worried yet. Verlinde's theory is quite fresh and it will take time to conclusively rule out Standard Cosmological model. As of yet, no one has properly worked out entropic gravity equivalent of various gravitational effects that arise in General Relativity such as gravitational lensing, a part of which was used in the paper discussed in the article. Never the less, Verlinde's ideas are more interesting and reasonable than other proposed modification of gravity, but that's just my opinion.