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> some of the people who promote it in the scientific community are borderline crackpots Is the astronmer making this particular "claim" among the borderline c
by vfclists 3y ago
> some of the people who promote it in the scientific community are borderline crackpots
Is the astronmer making this particular "claim" among the borderline crackpots?
Why don't you check the claims yourself before making such a comment?
You seem to be one of those people who are afraid that their cherished orthodox views may not hold, and so respond by bring up the crackpot angle.
- sigmoid10 3y agoIt's always funny when people accuse physicists of cherishing old views and not wanting change, when in fact any real good physicist loves to see conflicting data, because this is the only way progress is made. In fact, we have been hoping for someone to show how gravity breaks for more than a century. I don't think anyone wants this to be false. But good physicists are also very careful and reserved about analyses like these, because they know how difficult they are and exactly how much can go wrong. It wouldn't be the first time that a trivial bug in some self written software causes a fantastic publication, only to get trashed when other people try to replicate it. And unfortunately there are also bad physicists who actually trim data, which made the good ones even more careful and reserved. And if the academic MOND literature is known for anything, it's trimming data. So yes, I would love for this to be true, but no, I will not believe it until there is independent confirmation.