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"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This is not a dismissal. The work posted is important.

It was an application of Occam's razor. Dark energy arises automatically in the Standard Model. That is, you don't put it in by hand -- it emerges no matter what you do. In fact, we often get too much of it; this is the cosmological constant problem.

MOND is epistemologically far stronger.

> (My first thought when I heard about this Dark Energy thing was, "which part of Occam's Razor don't you get?")

Well, you would know.

Occam's Razor is not a law.