[verum ago]

It should make them rethink the models but they usually just make fictitious things up as a response.

yeah... the problem with things this theoretical is it's too easy for them to just ad hoc up a little change and then ask for more funding and a shiny new telescope to 'verify' it.

[Strategerist]

I’m genuinely curious.

You and kinoxi obviously have a deep-seated contempt for scientists (and even the process of science, perhaps.) Why? What drives it?

[El Gato]

yeah... the problem with things this theoretical is it's too easy for them to just ad hoc up a little change and then ask for more funding and a shiny new telescope to 'verify' it.

That is way science works. You make an observation, especially an unexpected one. Then you postulate an explanation. From that explanation, you make a prediction. If your science is an experimental one, your prediction should the outcome of an experiment, but if, like astronomy/astrophysics, it's an observational one, they you have to make more observations to look for the effect you predict. If you find it, your explanation, ie. your theory, is verified, always subject to other observations tending to disprove it.

[RightWhale]

How are they wrong?