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Momentous Big Bang Findings Questioned

Posted by Soulskill on from the science-is-self-correcting dept.

sciencehabit writes "The biggest discovery in cosmology in a decade could turn out to be an experimental artifact, according to a report by a physics blogger. The blogger says the BICEP group — the team behind the huge announcement of the moments after the Big Bang a few weeks back — had subtracted the wrong Planck measurement of foreground radiation in deriving its famous evidence for gravitational waves. As a result, the calculation is invalid and the so-called evidence inconclusive. Intriguingly, the BICEP team has yet to flat-out deny this."

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  1. Re:Peer review by Jmc23 · · Score: -1, Troll
    No, you call it science when the party who did wrong owns up to it.

    As long as they stand by their ground, then it's belief and therefore religion.

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  2. Re:Peer review by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Hold on there, Shellie.

    So you neither understood the summary, the links in question, or what the criticism was, right?

    Or you're just a rabid science fanboi rushing to protect that which needs no protection?

    But hey, on slashdot where nobody understands logic, science, the articles, and the summaries, you get rewarded with a big fat +5 for lugging out the one size fits all strawman and burning it.