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\textbf{The rise and fall of the biggest astrophysics discovery of the century highlights the importance of open, collaborative science}.  On 17 March 2014 \href{http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/CMB/bicep2/}{BICEP2}, a South Pole based experiment aimed at studying the very first moments of the universe, made a sensational \href{http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.3985}{announcement}. They claimed to have detected for the first time  the signature of an extremely rapid expansion of space that occurred  right after the Big Bang. universe's birth.  This expansion, also called inflation, is believed tohave occurred when the universe was extremely young and  be responsible for the existence of large-scale structures like clusters of galaxies, as well to explain why the properties of the universe appear to be the same for all observers.