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PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Volume 87, Issue 5, Pages 1197-1208Publisher
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/710839
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- John Templeton Foundation [61048]
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The Cold Dark Matter model faces many controversies at small scales, as simulations fail to reproduce the observed properties of dark matter (DM) halos. Since rival DM models differ on their predictions about the structure of DM halos, understanding their mass distribution is crucial for determining the nature of DM. However, only numerical approaches to determining what a hypothesis implies for the mass distribution are possible. Hence, simulations are a crucial part of evaluating DM rival models, as is assessing their reliability. I argue that robustness analysis is not a sufficient criterion for the trustworthiness of cosmological simulations.
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