I can understand why some people might want to down vote the above comment. However, the comment by the physicist was made in a public lecture and as far as I c

I can understand why some people might want to down vote the above comment. However, the comment by the physicist was made in a public lecture and as far as I can tell he was/is a supporter of the "dark" matter concept. In thinking about the follow-up comment I made, I was pondering why people and scientists in particular get upset about others who object or show problems with their preferred models and theories. In real terms, our understanding of the universe around us is extremely limited, as are our theories and models. Yet, it seems to me that we get so caught up in wanting to be right that we forget that we are on a path or voyage of discovery. There are so many instances in relatively recent history over various ideas, theories and models becoming anathema to the "consensus view" that we seem to have lost the excitement for discovery. Over the decades, I have come across people who started out being excited about science but as the years passed, they grew disillusioned with it as they saw various goings on within their fields. Instead of saying that it is okay for our theories and models to wrong and that anomalies should be investigated, it seems to be (at least with my experience) that the "party line" must be adhered to. As I have said in other places, science and its methodologies are agnostic to your own personal belief systems. You can do science irrespective of whether you are and atheist, pagan, deist, communist, capitalist, moslem, buddhist, hindu, christian, jew, humanist or anything other specific bent. The theories and models you derive may be based on your perspective, but the processes you use to develop them should be the same. How you view and resolve the data collected in your experiments will depend heavily on your basic viewpoint and often you will not challenge those assumptions and viewpoints. Others might though. Science is a wonderful tool to discover more about our universe, but it is a tool that has its limits and limitations. Let's get back to making science exciting for everyone and that there is so much more to discover.