A minor addendum: > So I'm not sure where you get the confidence that nothing different is being tried and that professional scientists wouldn't have an ounce

A minor addendum: > So I'm not sure where you get the confidence that nothing different is being tried and that professional scientists wouldn't have an ounce of sense. I find it a bit disrespectful actually. Try talking to a MOND proponent and you'll get a very different picture of how open scientists are to alternate approaches and questioning LCDM.