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Well, you can like dark matter or not. It nevertheless helps to explain cosmology pretty well. Much better than any other alternative. Now, since we have not discovered it, alternatives are possible. But saying that the dark matter paradigm is wrong is just an unfounded assumption. The good answer is "we don't know yet". :)

astrophysics for people in a hurry, i found the book most enlightening for a layman like myself