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Originally Posted by William
The reason there are scientific papers written concerning anomalies, is that science tries to explain the observation using current standard physics. When it appears to fail, the next step is to try new hypotheses...
In general, I personally support Nereid's and Cougar's discomfort in jumping to new physics (I do not support the dark matter or dark energy hypothesis).
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The Faraday story is interesting: New physics were a matter of coarse in his century. Today, new physics are only resorted to when they are necessary to salvage the existing model. I am talking specifically about the Dark Matter and Dark Energy hypotheses you eschew.
Whenever there is anomalous data such as the Pioneer experience, we should retest: Eliminate variables. Simply assuming there is something that the researchers are missing is unfair to them, and an offense to the spirit of discovery.