Latest Particle Dark Matter Hype
The EDGES experiment has discovered very interesting evidence for the detection of some of the very earliest stars to form after the Bang/Bounce. This seems like solid research that may well hold up, as long as unforeseen background radiations are not a fly in the soup (remember the BICEP-2 bursting bubble!). Then, of course, it is possible that the expected temperature predictions based on the LambdaCDM cosmological paradigm are off by a factor of two. Time will tell.
The amazing thing is how immediately some scientists and the majority of the science media have jumped on some very speculative hype that the factor of two temperature anomaly may/must be due to interactions with mythical subatomic dark matter particles. This is a possibility, but so are flying pigs.
It is discouraging to see some scientists and science journalists so desperate to validate the dubious and chronically failing particle dark matter speculations, and yet continuing to largely ignore the significant amount of empirical data favoring stellar-mass dark matter objects. How long will this unscientific bias plague physics?