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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 properties of light emitted more than 13.5 billion years ago during the Big Bang, made a sensational \href{http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.3985}{announcement}. They claimed to have detected the signature of an extremely rapid expansion of space in the early universe. This expansion, also called inflation, is believed to have 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 universe  appear to be the same for all observers.