Scientists rule out a popular alternative theory to dark matter

I thought that was what put the end to taking MOND seriously. Isn't the whole point to explain the alleged dark matter by some uniform rules instead of local conditions?

But I never understood what started the interest in it.

Everything I have ever read by proponents on the internet has resembled "believing in stuff (like "luminiferous ether") you can't see is unscientific".

I have never understood the feeling that dark matter is illegitimate, because there are so many invisible things that we do take for granted, like radio waves.

I have written similar things before and gotten lectured by anti-dark-matter-ites on why radio waves are obviously different from dark matter, but it didn't illuminate anything.