Over the past few weeks our primordial graviton background paper has been receiving a tremendous amount of media attention (in no small part due to the excellent joint Cambridge-Harvard press release and to its being picked up by Phys.org), particularly in the Italian and Spanish-speaking media. Particularly noteworthy is the coverage from Media INAF:
www.media.inaf.it/2022/11/04/vagnozzi-inflazione/
Remarkably, a few local Trentino Alto-Adige newspapers also picked up on this (first time for me appearing in a newspaper from Trentino):
www.lavocedeltrentino.it/2022/11/16/dubbi-sulla-nascita-del-cosmo-nel-team-anche-un-ricercatore-delluniversita-di-trento/ (La Voce del Trentino)
www.ildolomiti.it/ricerca-e-universita/2022/fondo-di-gravitoni-lo-studio-di-vagnozzi-unitn-e-del-collega-loeb-apre-una-nuova-porta-per-falsificare-il-paradigma-piu-accreditato-sulla-formazione-delluniverso (Il Dolomiti)
I particularly enjoyed the interview with Sara De Pascale from il Dolomiti, whose piece (in Italian of course) I highly recommend!
Regretfully, a number of other pieces were scientifically incorrect or misleading at best, suggesting that Avi and I claim that inflation is ruled out and should be replaced by a Big Bounce - let me clearly state once and for all that we said no such thing and made no judgement call on the status of inflation (in fact, in the second paragraph of the paper we explicitly write “Here we do not seek to take sides in the debate”…), so these issues simply amount to bad or click-bait journalism.