Published in Triton Station
Author Stacy McGaugh
There is a rule of thumb in scientific publication that if a title is posed a question, the answer is no. It sucks being so far ahead of the field that I get to watch people repeat the mistakes I made (or almost made) and warned against long ago. There have been persistent claims of deviations of one sort or another from the Baryonic Tully-Fisher relation (BTFR). So far, these have all been obviously wrong, for reasons we’ve discussed before.