What the hell, Physicists?

Okay, I am just a computer scientist who thinks about physics because I write science fiction and computer games that use physics. But I had always assumed that real astrophysicists had their act together when it came to theories. That when they said they needed “Dark Matter” to explain some reactions in space, they knew what they were talking about. Then some of them published a paper that made me say, “what the hell are you jokers…