Another nail in the MOND coffin?

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The relativistic pulsar-white dwarf binary PSR J1738+0333 II. The most stringent test of scalar-tensor gravity
http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.1450
 
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Not only that, it also strongly constrains GR alternatives like the Generalized Brans-Dicke scalar-tensor theory. It's one of the few survivors, and that's because it has some fudge factors that can make it arbitrarily close to GR.
 
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