The Case Against Dark Matter
> <i>Physicists do not like magic; when other cosmological observations seemed far easier to explain with dark matter than with MOND, they left the approach for dead.</i><p>But how is "dark matter" not magic?<p>To my untrained and pretty ignorant eye, dark matter looks like filler: the observation does not match the theory, and so, instead of looking for a better theory, we decided the observation was wrong and couldn't see what was there (and not just a little bit, but the greatest part of it).<p>Isn't that the definition of superstition? Invisible forces that explain events, in mysterious ways?