I am a bit shocked that the work by LIGO is so... unprofessional. How can one give away a Novel prize so easily.
> They just throw away data that don’t look like they want it to look.
If I take white noise and an assumption about how my data should look like I can basically prove anything.
If I take two white noise generators I am pretty sure I will still be able to find a signal which more less appears at the same time at both generators.
I hope they did more than just select the data which fits their assumption.
I wouldn't put too much weight on Hossenfelder's blog posts. She is very angry when things don't go exactly her way (in this case, IIUC, she's basically trying to hold LIGO to an unreasonable standard before accepting proof, and casting some aspersions which only experts in the field would be capable of evaluating).