Authors: J. Marvin Herndon Ours is a time of unparalleled
richness in astronomical observations, but understanding seems
to be absent throughout broad areas of astrophysics. Among some
groups of astrophysicists there appears to be measured degrees
of consensus, as indicated by the prevalence of so-called
"standard models", but in science consensus is nonsense; science
is a logical process, not a democratic process, and logical
connections in many instances seem to be lacking. So the
question astrophysicists should ask is this: "What's wrong with
astrophysics?" Finding out what's wrong is not only the
necessary precursor to righting what's wrong, but will open the
way to new advances in astrophysics. Toward that end, one may
question the basic assumptions upon which astrophysics is
founded, as well as question the approaches astrophysicists
currently employ. Here I describe one methodology and provide
specific examples, the details of which are set forth elsewhere
[1-3]. In doing so, I place into a logical seq