[jessriedel]

> [This is especially true since we learned last year that some well-known non-particle-physicist bloggers have information pipelines directly into the experiments. It is perhaps inevitable that there are scientists who see it in their best interest to subvert the scientific process.]

The ethics of divulging LHC data before it's been fully vetted by the experimental collaborations is certainly debatable, but let's not go conflating the weird, experiment-specific rules for making public statements (which exist mainly to protect their reputation) with the scientific process itself.

[jessriedel]

Luckily, Peter Woit is a man after my own heart and is not above a bit of pettiness:

> Update: Matt Strassler has more about this here. He provides about 20 links to his own blog, no link to the source of his information (this posting). It appears that this is because I’m a “non-particle-physicist blogger” engaged in a conspiratorial plot with some of the 6000+ people who know this latest news to “subvert the scientific process” by sharing it with others.

http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=4772

Preach it, brother.