Dark Matter Stupidity Redux

These people just won't leave off about this "dark matter" delusion. However, there is a tiny glimmer of hope, as at least some cosmologists are finally starting to display small signs of self-awareness about the whole issue:

"If there are no dark galaxies in the universe, then we must be missing an important piece of physics," says Michael Merrifield at the University of Nottingham, UK.

YA THINK?!

It's amazing to me that so many intelligent people can be so easily deluded, and build such an intricate fantasy world that is to their own long-term detriment, simply out of an inability to admit that they're wrong about something very basic. Of course, it probably shouldn't amaze me--just look at the modern Democratic Party, for example.