That brings up the untold story underlying the untold story, and a part of what first drew my attention to the issue....

Maybe a decade or more ago, after the "Axis of Evil" thing came out, I watched an interview with a documentarian who had made a film about it called, "The Principle". He somehow got all the big mainstream astrophysics names: Laurence Krauss, Michio Kaku, Max Tegmark, Lisa Randall, etc.

But the thing was, the new findings violated the Copernican Principle: that there were no special places in the Universe. Thus the title. It all finally dawned on these geniuses and they tried to back out, but they had signed all the paperwork.

To top it off, this guy was a Christian and took it as confirmation of, you know, whatever. So lawsuits flew and all the rest and the film virtually vanished. Last time I looked, you could still scrape up some remnants of it's existence, but it wasn't easy.