NYT: Rumors in Astrophysics Spread at Light Speed

[RJN]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/03/scien ... epler.html

“The Kepler mission is designed to discover Earth-sized planets but it has not yet discovered any; at this time we have found only planet candidates,” he wrote. In other words: keep on moving, nothing to see here. I’ve heard that a lot lately. Call it the two-sigma blues.

One culprit here is the Web, which was invented to foster better communication among physicists in the first place, but has proved equally adept at spreading disinformation. But another, it seems to me, is the desire for some fundamental discovery about the nature of the universe ...

[bystander]

Science, and rumors of science | Bad Astronomy | 03 Aug 2010

[swainy]

The labyrinth, Just got a miss leading WEB overall. Any body finds a string, Let me Know.

tc