Of course everyone is freshly aware of the neutrino fiasco, so this anomaly will probably be handled with extra skepticism and timidity. Without more data we can only make conjectures based on Occam's razor, etc.
The neutrino fiasco was very unfortunate since by all accounts the scientists involved went public with some seriously stressed skepticism. That heads rolled because outsiders ignored the skepticism is rather distressing.
It's unfortunate and leads to secrecy regarding potential discoveries instead of keeping the public up to date with what's going on.
Heads rolled?! I remember the neutrino story being handled with complete professionalism at the time. I wasn't aware there'd been any new developments. Do you have a link?
Much appreciated, thanks. That's absolutely tragic, and a failure of the scientific community and media at large. The media for precipitating it, and the scientific community for letting it happen.
Several people were pseudo-fired/resigned as I recall.
That sort of thing perverts the way that science is done. There's an increasing zeitgeist that "science" is done by publishing papers which present evidence which confirm existing theories. This has led to a lot of unpublished papers and a growing problem of "fudging results". We need science to be an open and honest discussion where experimental results can be presented without the researchers being at risk of opprobrium merely because the particular evidence doesn't conform to the status quo.