We don't need no stinkin dark energy III

Not entirely discouraged by what some might consider a pretty conclusive refutation astro-ph/0503582, the We don't need no crowd strikes back with these papers:

astro-ph/0503715 by Notari, the N of KMNR and

astro-ph/0504192 by 5 authors including Wiltshire of WDNNSDE II. et. al. and Wiltshire (he's last author) check out his model against the super nova data. They get reasonable results only if they throw out dark matter as well as dark energy, so I would say this doesn't look too good for their theory.

To this inexpert observer, it looks like dark energy is still in the Cosmological drivers seat, but stay tuned.

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