Re: Occam's Razor with fractally serrated edges...
Yes, and it is not helpful to use phrases such as "baffled boffins" (except for alliterative purposes).
Talk of scientists being baffled and stumped only encourages those who don't understand the process. Too often scientists are accused of claiming to know everything, which makes such accusers pleased that they are "stumped" - nobody likes a know-it-all, after all. In reality science just describes what we see, and plausible theories to account for what we see. Bafflement occurs only if you take current accepted theory as cast-iron fact, which real scientists don't, despite what some science-illiterates and some sections of the press think.
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