The civil year begins -- a new year begins every day --, thus the title. As far as modern cosmology is concerned, we are in the Middle Ages! The old cycle of science is about to make another turn: we desperately need a new Tycho Brahe to teach us the foundations of the trustful measure of the cosmos, a new Newton getting mad on the imposition of scientific coherence...

Oh! I'm a man -- a teacher -- of constant sorrow! I teach the wonderful physical picture of the expanding universe, the formal beauty of Friedmann equation and Robertson-Walker metric... It is really a pity though that all of that does not conform to the real universe! 99.5% of the universe is made to be dark, unknown by any imaginable means... Would old Kepler make his revolution with the present-day conformist approach? No. We need also a new Kepler on the road...

Modern cosmology is nuts. Doughnuts.

1. Do not forget that all we have is the Hubble distance-redshift scale up to at most z=0.1. Doughnut for the so-called "cosmological magnitude-redshift diagrams."

2. Do not ever join any cosmological trend. Doughnut for the New Cosmology gang.

3. Do not trust SNe-Ia "standard" candle. Doughnut for the accelerating universe.

4. Do not accept darkness. Doughnut for the permanent position at the Dark Chamber.

5. Do not believe in modern cosmology. Doughnut for the Big Shots.

6. Do not underestimate CMB data. Doughnut for the CMB-anisotropy storytellers.

7. Do not abandon real science. Doughnut for the pseudo-science club.

8. Do not criticize what you can't understand. Doughnut.

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