When will the madness stop?

More ridiculousness from the scientific community:


http://planetsave.com/2012/06/16/neutrons-might-be-disappearing-into-a-parallel-world/


"Experimental data obtained by the research group of Anatoly Serebrov at the Institut Laue-Langevin, France was reanalyzed by theoretical physicists Zurab Berezhiani and Fabrizio Nesti from the University of l’Aquila, Italy. They found that the loss rate of very slow free neutrons appeared to depend on the direction and strength of the magnetic field applied. This anomaly is unexplainable by known physics."

'This anomaly is unexplainable by known physics." Well, gee, maybe that's because known physics is wrong. If experimental observations don't fit known physics, perhaps it's time to rethink known physics.

But the scientists in the article (in keeping with scientists in general) take a different tack. "Zurab Berezhiani thinks that the anomaly can be explained by the existence of a parallel world consisting of mirror particles."

Why is it that, when confronted with observations that go against theory (i.e. things that are unexplainable by known physics), the instinct of physicists is to pull wacky ideas out of the asses to save their theory? Dark matter, parallel universes, etc. Things for which there is not a shred of observational evidence. 

"Wait a minute," they'll object to my objection. "There is evidence for these 'wacky ideas.'" And then they cite as evidence the very anomalous observations that they're trying to explain away by pulling the wacky ideas out of their asses. It's circular reasoning, and it's completely ridiculous.