From the pen of Stephen Crothers:
Cosmic inflation: Confidence lowered for Big Bang signal
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27935479
Professor Marc Kamionkowski of Johns Hopkins University says that the criticism of BICEP2 claims are "science in action"; "If it was not such an exciting result, you would not be hearing so much about it"; "We're going to need confirmation by independent groups. That's the way things work in science. We don't believe things because somebody says they're true; we believe them because different people make the measurements independently and find the same results."
However, as is usual for astrophysical scientists, Professor Kamionkowski has not considered all the facts; far from it, and neither has Professor Clement Pryke of the BICEP2 team,
Professor Pierre-Marie Robitaille: The Cosmic Microwave Background
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8ijbu3bSqI
Professor Pierre-Marie Robitaille, ‘On the validity of Kirchhoff’s Law’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Hstum3U2zw
Robitaille P.-M.
WMAP: A Radiological Analysis
http://www.ptep-online.com/index_files/2007/PP-08-01.PDF
Robitaille P.-M.
COBE: A Radiological Analysis
http://www.ptep-online.com/index_files/2009/PP-19-03.PDF
Robitaille P.-M.
The Planck Satellite LFI and the Microwave Background: Importance of the 4K Reference Targets
http://www.ptep-online.com/index_files/2010/PP-22-02.PDF
BICEP2 Fallacies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC_KkLvG22A