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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 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 exponential 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 universe appears homogeneous and isotropic, meaning that at large scales its properties are the same for all observers.