There are literally hundreds of papers every month with some clever solution to dark matter, dark energy, and/or quantum gravity.
I had a proposal turned down last year because, according to the reviewer, it was on WIMPs, and most papers now are not on WIMPs, so apparently they are passé. Wut?
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