The case against cosmology
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Publication:1585052
DOI10.1023/A:1001981929727zbMATH Open0966.83010arXivastro-ph/0009020OpenAlexW1598953771MaRDI QIDQ1585052FDOQ1585052
Authors: M. J. Disney 
Publication date: 21 August 2001
Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: It is argued that some of the recent claims for cosmology are grossly overblown. Cosmology rests on a very small database: it suffers from many fundamental difficulties as a science (if it is a science at all) whilst observations of distant phenomena are difficult to make and harder to interpret. It is suggested that cosmological inferences should be tentatively made and sceptically received.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0009020
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