Good points. It was news to me, though, to read that there is an asterisk of uncertainty about the BICEP2 result, because the original flurry of press lost tha

Good points. It was news to me, though, to read that there is an asterisk of uncertainty about the BICEP2 result, because the original flurry of press lost that asterisk. ("5 sigma"!). I happened to be talking with someone from the Planck team yesterday, and they mentioned the seriousness of these reservations. He was not pre-judging one way or the other, just saying it's not obvious at present how it's going to shake out.