What's discussed before? Sounds like pretty huge news to me - how come the world has been so quite for the last 2 months? I'm reading it for the first time, so

What's discussed before? Sounds like pretty huge news to me - how come the world has been so quite for the last 2 months? I'm reading it for the first time, so it does make me wonder.. bunch of scientist claiming their 15 minutes of fame?