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The OP was about how pop-sci reports the paper, not the science itself.

• bosswipe 6y ago
  Which is a boring meta criticism that adds nothing.
  • philosopher1234 6y ago
    I didn’t find it boring or useless. I found it quite interesting. No need to be so negative bosswipe
    • bosswipe 6y ago
      The other comment threads in here are discussing the actual experiment and theories. But this thread is at the top taking up a bunch of the oxygen and it's just repeating tired old media criticisms that we've all heard before. The actual experiment is way more interesting.
      • d0mine 6y ago
        on the topic of "repeating tired old media criticism": there are people who might have learned it today https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/
        • dash2 6y ago
          Confirmed. I did.
    • anigbrowl 6y ago
      As of right now it's the top comment even though it's actually misleading, thus contributing the dumbing-down phenomenon its author complains about.
• deleted 6y ago
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• ineptech 6y ago
  TFA ends with, "It’s an intriguing result, and it may lend some weight to the MOND hypothesis for further study. But it’s important to keep in mind that so far the bulk of the evidence still points towards dark matter, and it’ll take much more work to topple that hypothesis entirely."