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D.C.R. and V.M. thank CNPq (Brazil) and FAPES (Brazil) for partial financial support. Z.D. thanks the Iran Science Elites Federation for financial support.
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Rodrigues, D.C., Marra, V., Del Popolo, A. et al. Reply to: Overconfidence in Bayesian analyses of galaxy rotation curves. Nat Astron 4, 134–135 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-019-0999-1
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