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by bsder 38 days ago
Yours is a common misunderstanding, as well.

Occam's Razor only kicks in when the hypotheses have equal predictive and explanatory power.

The MOND hypothesis does NOT have equal explanatory power with the dark matter hypothesis. As such, Occam's Razor is not relevant.

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Maybe you can point me to the "equal predictive and explanatory power" bit in William's writings.