On Friday, June 6, 2014 3:13:43 AM UTC-4, Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] wrote:
For anyone who hasn't seen them, here are two nice blog commentaries

on the recent claims and counter-claims of whether galactic dust could



And here, for scientific balance, is another commentary (plus responses) on the BICEP2 "blunder" and Steinhardt's piece in Nature.

http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=6921