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I get the feeling that modern astronomy and astrophysics stopped basing hypotheses on observable phenomena, and started relying on models instead--and the models have become increasingly wonky, because they have to try to adjust for the previous wonky shit their models called for.
gpt
That pretty much seems to be it.
Been said for a while now but modern science is a religion all to itself.
Not to say that the religious loonies trying to use that fact as a reason their own bullshit is valid are any better, though. At least science started off trying to be objective and doing the right thing.