Sister blog of Physicists of the Caribbean in which I babble about non-astronomy stuff, because everyone needs a hobby

Friday 20 June 2014

The BICEP2 result was a dud

If nothing else, this is a lesson that you shouldn't do science by press release (unknown unknowns and all that). Or by using "data" from a PDF of a presentation slide.

On the other hand, it did get a lot of people very excited and generated a lot of interest in a relatively obscure idea.
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27935479

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