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There are also tremendous social/professional/monetary incentives to stick to Lambda-CDM (or whatever the consensus happens to be.)
by TheBlight 2y ago
There are also tremendous social/professional/monetary incentives to stick to Lambda-CDM (or whatever the consensus happens to be.)
- naasking 2y agoThere's also outside support due to converging interests. If DM is a particle that gives particle physicists an excuse to fund numerous experiments in an attempt to detect it. There are just more physicists motivated overall to prefer particle DM.
- TheBlight 2y agoIt's also safe. There is no reputational risk because "everyone" (who matters to you professionally) already agrees with you. There isn't much immediate upside to sticking your neck out. Especially in the era of social media.