Astrophysicist here.
This is the same shtick from from a known anti-DM guy.
A few points.
* DM particle haven't yet been found.
* The current best theory of the structure formation and galaxy evolution involves dark matter and critically depend on it to reproduce observations.
* There is a broad variety of Dark matter models that are consistent with simulations.
* It is possible there is some theory that somehow explains everything without the need of dark matter, but it doesn't exist (now), and very likely it would work effectively like dark matter. Without such theory, claiming DM doesn't exist is simply stupid IMO.
* There are a few cases where you can find tensions with the existing DM based paradigm. I.e. the is test pointed in the article involving galactic bar in the paper "Fast galaxy bars continue to challenge standard cosmology". Note the toned down title. In this paper they just compared one specific feature of galactic disks in the simulations to the data and show that it doesn't match. I'd argue there are many reasons that could be the case that doesnt' involve killing DM. The same applies to other tensions.
* A final point. Even Modified Newtonian Dynamics theories require DM, because without it you cannot form enough structure early in the universe (as dark matter start to collapse earlier) and is essential to reproduce the amount of structure we see in the cosmic microwave background.
* DM particle haven't yet been found.
* The current best theory of the structure formation and galaxy evolution involves dark matter and critically depend on it to reproduce observations.
* There is a broad variety of Dark matter models that are consistent with simulations.
* It is possible there is some theory that somehow explains everything without the need of dark matter, but it doesn't exist (now), and very likely it would work effectively like dark matter. Without such theory, claiming DM doesn't exist is simply stupid IMO.
* There are a few cases where you can find tensions with the existing DM based paradigm. I.e. the is test pointed in the article involving galactic bar in the paper "Fast galaxy bars continue to challenge standard cosmology". Note the toned down title. In this paper they just compared one specific feature of galactic disks in the simulations to the data and show that it doesn't match. I'd argue there are many reasons that could be the case that doesnt' involve killing DM. The same applies to other tensions.
* A final point. Even Modified Newtonian Dynamics theories require DM, because without it you cannot form enough structure early in the universe (as dark matter start to collapse earlier) and is essential to reproduce the amount of structure we see in the cosmic microwave background.