LIGO and the Higgs boson example are both extreme outliers in physics in terms of scale, how much statistics they necessarily involve, the scrutiny and publicit

LIGO and the Higgs boson example are both extreme outliers in physics in terms of scale, how much statistics they necessarily involve, the scrutiny and publicity they get and almost every other property. I'd also note that scientists trying to oversimplify things for a media interview almost always screw up somewhere. I wouldn't draw any conclusions about physics in general from either their papers or (especially) interviews.