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A Meta Crisis of Dark Matters

By catdynamics on March 8, 2013.

The Dark Matter Crisis Continues

Pavel and Marcel give the back story of what happened at scilog and the social media mud flinging over MOND and other alternate conjectures for modified gravity.

Also on the fb "Astronomers" group

"The Dark Matter Crisis" will have a guest blog entry tomorrow on the science issue.

It really is true that the Internet interprets censorship as damage and reroutes...

The guest post on CMD vs MOND by Scott Dodelson is up at the Dark Matter Crisis blog (see comment below)

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