> the candidate LEP signal is pretty weak, given that they were explicitly on the hunt for this exact sort of thing. Isn't the fact that they were explicitly h

> the candidate LEP signal is pretty weak, given that they were explicitly on the hunt for this exact sort of thing. Isn't the fact that they were explicitly hunting for it a reason to take it more seriously? In contrast, if this signal was discovered after trawling the huge dataset for a hundred possible hypotheses, that would be a reason to discount it, Bayes-wise.