I've heard that the problem is there is only one other independent facility that can actually replicate the entire test to verify. There is one other facility that can perform "partial" tests (they didn't say to what extent). That facility said that while they could test some of the aspect, they couldn't give truly accurate results in direct comparison to the CERN results.
Everyone else can only double check the math, not the actual aspects of the test, to determine if they CERN scientists goofed with a number somewhere.
My gut feeling on the whole thing is this: Humans make up things to explain the scientific world around them. They can't go through life randomly guessing, so they come up with theories and formulas and plug them in to everything until something comes along to prove them wrong. This is one of those cases (it's just been a long time in coming).
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