Personally I've always felt both the Dark Matter hypothesis and MOND are dead wrong, and that everyone is in the muck messing around with these as though one or

Personally I've always felt both the Dark Matter hypothesis and MOND are dead wrong, and that everyone is in the muck messing around with these as though one or the other are the only possible explanations. Dark Matter has not remotely been proven, not even in the remotest sense, and yet it is a fixture in the paradigm of modern cosmology. It's as messed up as when the luminiferous ether was held similarly as incontrovertible science... also without a shred of proof. When someone actually detects Dark Matter is when I will give that hypothesis any attention, while MOND is equally unpersuasive. Solving the "missing matter" problem is going to happen, and it's either going to be an adjustment of the data (or more precise or better measurements), or it'll be that we just didn't have the whole picture, and once we do, it's going to be a "duh" moment (which I suspect is going to be that there was never any missing matter, and everything and the kitchen sink thrown in that Dark Matter is invented to explain will be explained without the need for Dark Matter).