Dr. Brian Keating

But those are all funded by you and your listeners and some of the taxpayers. So the National Science Foundation operates those C-130s are part of the National Science Foundation's fleet. We don't pay a dime for them. If I want to build a computer network system down there, we don't pay a dime for it. It's actually a point of contention because now I'm no longer with that experiment.

But those are all funded by you and your listeners and some of the taxpayers. So the National Science Foundation operates those C-130s are part of the National Science Foundation's fleet. We don't pay a dime for them. If I want to build a computer network system down there, we don't pay a dime for it. It's actually a point of contention because now I'm no longer with that experiment.

But those are all funded by you and your listeners and some of the taxpayers. So the National Science Foundation operates those C-130s are part of the National Science Foundation's fleet. We don't pay a dime for them. If I want to build a computer network system down there, we don't pay a dime for it. It's actually a point of contention because now I'm no longer with that experiment.

I've recused myself from it for many years, not because of the incident where we were basically disconfirming – later disconfirmed our results.

I've recused myself from it for many years, not because of the incident where we were basically disconfirming – later disconfirmed our results.

I've recused myself from it for many years, not because of the incident where we were basically disconfirming – later disconfirmed our results.

I didn't do the news conference. OK.

I didn't do the news conference. OK.

I didn't do the news conference. OK.

Some months, yeah. Some months.

Some months, yeah. Some months.

Some months, yeah. Some months.

Look, I'm not proud of that. I'm not proud that I had such a base, you know, kind of pursuit. I think it was, as I said, compounded by psychological factors, you know. But did you have fun doing the work? Oh, I loved it. Yeah.

Look, I'm not proud of that. I'm not proud that I had such a base, you know, kind of pursuit. I think it was, as I said, compounded by psychological factors, you know. But did you have fun doing the work? Oh, I loved it. Yeah.

Look, I'm not proud of that. I'm not proud that I had such a base, you know, kind of pursuit. I think it was, as I said, compounded by psychological factors, you know. But did you have fun doing the work? Oh, I loved it. Yeah.

I mean, getting to do what I do now, and now it's even more exciting in a sense because the project, you know, and by the way, it's not like we made a blunder and like, you know, Rob hopefully took the lens cap off the camera. We didn't make a blunder like that. There have been many, many blunders. and actually led to much worse retractions. Our results are stronger than ever.

I mean, getting to do what I do now, and now it's even more exciting in a sense because the project, you know, and by the way, it's not like we made a blunder and like, you know, Rob hopefully took the lens cap off the camera. We didn't make a blunder like that. There have been many, many blunders. and actually led to much worse retractions. Our results are stronger than ever.

I mean, getting to do what I do now, and now it's even more exciting in a sense because the project, you know, and by the way, it's not like we made a blunder and like, you know, Rob hopefully took the lens cap off the camera. We didn't make a blunder like that. There have been many, many blunders. and actually led to much worse retractions. Our results are stronger than ever.

I should say are the BICEP team's results. I've left the team as I said, but their results are still the very best by almost an order of magnitude. We hope with the Simons Observatory that I'm co-leading with colleagues at Princeton and Penn and other places that we can actually supersede them, but we haven't yet. And so what we saw I should be very clear. We didn't make a blunder.

I should say are the BICEP team's results. I've left the team as I said, but their results are still the very best by almost an order of magnitude. We hope with the Simons Observatory that I'm co-leading with colleagues at Princeton and Penn and other places that we can actually supersede them, but we haven't yet. And so what we saw I should be very clear. We didn't make a blunder.