Physics World has a story today about a new addition to the now-you-see-it, now-you-don't maybe-it's-a-Higgs-boson signals seen at Fermilab. (See here and here for a flavor of the earlier discussions). This one is a beyond-the-Standard-Model particle that would require a supersymmetric theory to explain.
Of course, the evidence at this point consists of a whopping three events. Color me skeptical.
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No Higgs at all! The big fun is physics with a weak founding postulate. Parity, irresolvably discontinuous, is immune to Noether's theorem. Anisotropic vacuum is both acceptable and testable. Somebody should look.
There was talk of a possible Higgs signal before LEP was supposed to be closed, wasn't there?
Fermilab should have left it until just before LHC went up (in order to claim discovery even if LHC found it in glorious technicolour).