1112.4386 (J. W. Moffat et al.)
J. W. Moffat, V. T. Toth
We comment on arXiv:1112.1320 and point out that baryonic oscillations of the
matter power spectrum, while predicted by theories that do not incorporate
collisionless cold dark matter, are strongly suppressed by the statistical
window function that is used to process finite-sized galaxy samples. We assert
that with present-day data sets, the slope of the matter power spectrum is a
much stronger indicator of a theory's validity. We also argue that MOND should
not be used as a strawman theory as it is not in general representative of
modified gravity theories; some theories, notably our scalar-vector-tensor
MOdified Gravity (MOG), offer much more successful predictions of cosmological
observations.
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