[kyp275]

Originally Posted by grey_moon

Errr that isn't confirmation of its existence

They found something that behaves like it, lets wait for the confirmation before cracking open the discovery of the decade champers!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16116236

Also please read the comments of the following:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknap...een-confirmed/

For CERN, it is. And frankly looking for others to "independently reproduce" the result in this case is just stupid, not everyone has a LHC in their backyard.

Is CERN going to to additional testing? yes. Does that change their assertion that they've found the Higgs? no.

In any case, this has gone off the rails enough. The original point is that there's a difference between actual science and random off-the-handle claims without any basis to back it up. Not ALL claims are created equal, otherwise you're basically operating under the same principles that lead to pseudo-science crap like creationism.

I can make a claim that I can jump to the moon from the surface of the earth because I have the ability to step on air, should a completely bogus claim like that be received with the same "open mindedness" as, say, the Standard Model in physics?