"If the dark matter model is correct, the distribution of nearby galaxies should not affect the rotation curve. If MoND is correct, the distribution and resulting external field effect (EFE) should affect the curves.
Surprisingly, shockingly even, their study found a clear effect. In galaxies with the strongest external fields, the EFE was confirmed with a confidence of 8 to 11 sigma"
Don't know much about this Gary Weiss, but if this is accurate it puts a new spin on the actions of Metz, with his strange insistence on doxing Scott and lying about the NYT policy.
This was probably just the usual case of the article title failing the describe the content. The word obscure isn’t used in the article itself, which actually makes an effort to explain the concept for people who haven’t come across it before. And wsj published a much shorter piece in on QALYs in 2015
“Ex-Mormons responded in droves to dump their contact lists of current Mormons. By the end of the first day his ad target list had grown from 30 to 397”
So now people get doxxed by friends and family. Imagine someone pretending to do this to influence someone in one direction, but then using it for any other reason. Who can say none of their friends would be tricked?
Not saying that any of this was the right response for them to take but many of these people were recently mormon and therefor had the working that the mormon church uses still fresh in their minds.
The mormon church constantly asks its members to tell the missionaries their non-mormon friends names, phone numbers, and addresses so missionaries can visit and try to convert them. While we see things from the technology side, the mormon church has done the sneaker-net version of the same thing for a very long time.
Maybe? It might also depend on whether or not they are from Utah/Southern Idaho, because the California mormons I know are pretty laid back. In any event defining one's identity in terms of a negation observably warps one's outlook, and I've never seen it be positive.
Mormons obviously believe some pretty strange things, but they also tend to live pretty admirable lives, with a strong focus on community, family, charitable giving, and more.
