I guess, in the future, they'll just question random people on Slashdot instead of doing actual studies.

Well, sometimes something that seems 'obvious' turn out to be wrong, which is why we have science.

In 2001: "I don't see many sales in the future of iPod. ~LoudMusic" Maybe you should stop trying to predict the future, man.

You clearly haven't attempted to read a cricket rulebook.

If it was a problem with the large size of galaxies, the error would be proportional to the size of the galaxy. Calculations show that ordinary matter consistently makes up around 1/5 of the matter needed to account for the gravitation. That is an error factor of 400%. To somehow assume that just because mass is gathered in something we call galaxies it suddenly follows completely different equations that consistently gives the same error, is much more unreasonable than the existence of dark matter imo. Also, there are other independent proofs that result in almost exactly same amount of dark matter.

The shape of the cosmic microwave background radiation and the ratio between the different elements in the universe(like H, He) are also proofs of dark matter. The fact that the amount of dark matter needed to make the behaviour of galaxies make sense is in almost perfect agreement with the above observations is indeed very strong evidence for the existence of dark matter. That they should somehow by mistake all add up to the same amount of dark matter(about 22%) is insanely unlikely. Anyway, the article was on dark energy, which is a different matter. :p

Of course he didn't do research. Words can't be trusted. I'm pretty he did the responsible thing and looked it up in his gut.

He didn't say Obama was MLK. He said Obama was MLKs dream come true.