On Monday, June 15, 2015 at 4:30:41 PM UTC-4, Robert L. Oldershaw wrote:

Some more interesting reading in the form of a new preprint on arxiv.org.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.09143

This paper (an Oxford group) analyzes the testability of the
Inflationary Scenario and concludes that "cosmic inflation is
currently difficult to falsify and thus to be construed as a
scientific theory, ...".

Since inflation offers possible explanations for several fundamental
cosmological problems, its shaky status has important consequences
for the field of cosmology.

RLO
Fractal Cosmology