Scientists find evidence for a ninth planet.

[Jeff7]

It's not data indicative of some rising, nefarious plot by scientists to lie their way to grant funding (as slim as that funding tends to be; most people are not getting rich by being a scientist surviving on publicly funded grants). It's just an aggregation of retracted papers which were retracted due to fraud, incompetence, or simple human error in the original works.

That's just the kind of thing a scientist would say.

 

[Darwin333]

Scientists publish increasing amounts of fraudulent reseach in order to get more funding and attention. Basically they are karma whores.

I know right! It's not like we have experienced the greatest continual leap in technology that mankind has ever seen in the last century or so!

 

[DigDog]

there is a dwarf planet

name ?

 

[Darwin333]

name ?

Sorry, thought I included that. It's name is Sedna and here is a link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/90377_Sedna

 

[Ruptga]

Warning: logarithmic scales

 

[DigDog]

It's name is Sedna

the reason why we didn't discover sedna earlier is because it's a minute lump of rock. NOT a ginormous body which needs a complex set of special proprieties specifically to pass unobserved.

 

[shortylickens]

name ?

Sleepy.

 

[Craig234]

You do know what the planet will be named if Trump is elected. One more reason not to.