As science goes, scientists will rather be inclined to believe this than that something can be faster than photones … Because this is what everyone has been looking for and is expected.

Headology tells us that people are rather to believe what they expect than what they don't expect.

Edit : Found in The Guardian :

Sean Carroll, a physicist at California Institute of Technology, said there was the slightest sign of something unusual in the results.

"It's clear that the LHC has discovered a new particle. It's very much like the Standard Model Higgs boson – but there are just enough differences to be interesting. If the differences are real, they very possibly come from new particles interacting with the Higgs. The fun has just begun!"