jrn77478,
Please don't make me have to go back to my statistics classes and look for the many ways that statistical analysis can be used incorrectly and skew a result. There are just ways that if you have an idea of a result you are expecting or looking for that can cause you to ask a question in such a way as to reinforce your expectations. I am sure if I look I can find resent things in astrophysics where what was believed by many scientists was found to be incorrect after a new phenomena was found that went again previous thinking. Based on what was known at the time an incorrect principal is postulated and agreed upon by the body of science until something else comes along and disrupts that theory. So even though a paper has been vetted by the group and has gone through the scientific method, it can still be incorrect. Gladly that doesn't happen all that often or we would have real turmoil all the time. The discovery of the Higgs Boson is one of those things that will do just that now that supposedly it has been proven to exist. Theory will now have to be adjusted to take it into account.
Please don't make me have to go back to my statistics classes and look for the many ways that statistical analysis can be used incorrectly and skew a result. There are just ways that if you have an idea of a result you are expecting or looking for that can cause you to ask a question in such a way as to reinforce your expectations. I am sure if I look I can find resent things in astrophysics where what was believed by many scientists was found to be incorrect after a new phenomena was found that went again previous thinking. Based on what was known at the time an incorrect principal is postulated and agreed upon by the body of science until something else comes along and disrupts that theory. So even though a paper has been vetted by the group and has gone through the scientific method, it can still be incorrect. Gladly that doesn't happen all that often or we would have real turmoil all the time. The discovery of the Higgs Boson is one of those things that will do just that now that supposedly it has been proven to exist. Theory will now have to be adjusted to take it into account.