That may well be true. There are plenty of false claims out there. My entire PhD nearly died because the published work it was supposed to be based on turned out to be complete and utter rubbish.
Do tell. You piqued my curiosity.
Still, and I'll just keep plugging away at this until it sinks in:
Not false advertising
Not a suable offense.
It seems to me that we will eventually have to agree to disagree on this particular point. I might have more sympathy for your position were it not for the fact that *taxpayer money* (not private funding) is being spent on this "camera". From my skeptical perspective, it's no more a "dark energy camera" than it's a 'ghost' camera, or a 'dark unicorn camera', or a 'dark invisible faerie camera'. There is no demonstrated cause/effect link between 'dark energy' and photon redshift, whereas there are other demonstrated plasma redshift mechanisms that have been shown to have a tangible effect on photon redshift in the lab.
Dark energy is not a "thing". It's simply a placeholder term for human ignorance, specifically the ignorance of *real* plasma physics where pulse/signal broadening actually occurs in plasma as does plasma redshift. These empirical causes of photon redshift in plasma/dust include: The Wolf effect, Compton redshift, Stark redshift and what Chen et all called "plasma redshift".
Holushko's mathematical model addresses the same supernova data and his model explains the supernova data perfectly without resorting to inflation or dark energy. I have no empirical use for 'dark sky religions' that require no less that three pure acts of faith on the part of the 'believer', and requires that the plasmas and photons in space work entirely differently than they work in the lab.
If the government were not spending my hard earned tax dollars on this dark nonsense, I might have some sympathy for your points, in fact I'd be inclined to agree with you. As it stands however, it's *my* money, not just "their" money, and I do care about scientific accuracy. It's a 'camera' that is sensitive to photons in a specific spectrum range, specifically the red end of the spectrum. The actual *cause* of photon redshift is the real 'mystery', not 'dark energy'. Dark energy is a "sky religion" that literally requires the believer to ignore the falsification process that took place at LHC regarding SUSY theory.
False claims do not impede anything. Any other scientist in the field is entitled to collect their own data and create their own interpretation. Happens all the time, in this field as well as others.
I agree with you position so long as we're talking about *private* funding. Anyone is welcome to spend their private monies anyway they see fit, on whatever boondoggle they wish. When it comes to *my* money however, it's a different story. When they spend public money on this nonsense, they have to start answering to an angry public that has every right to call them on their false claims.
In any courtroom in this country, with enough money, it can be shown that there are several "natural causes" of photon redshift in plasma and dust, including the Wolf effect, Compton redshift, Stark redshift and what Chen describes as 'plasma redshift'. Chen has even shown an empirical link between the number of free electrons in the plasma and the amount of photon redshift caused by that feature. The bulk of the universe is in the plasma state.
Lambda-CDM theory is predicated upon ignoring every type of demonstrate form of plasma redshift. It 'assumes' that the plasma in space is a 'magical plasma' where pulse broadening and plasma redshift never happen. Sorry, I simply don't buy that metaphysical/religious song and dance routine, and so long as they are spending my money on that dark sky mythology, they will be held accountable for their actions and their claims.
