Take your pick from this Atlantic roundup of physics bloggers, some of them directly involved in the experiments, for the real scoop: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2012/07/best-physics-g...

EDIT: this guy at nature claims " The ATLAS and CMS experiments are each seeing signals between 4.5 and 5 sigma"

http://www.nature.com/news/physicists-find-new-particle-but-...

With the combination that could put us over the magic 6 sigma point, but that is a political issue apparently.

http://www.amazon.com/The-God-Particle-Universe-Question/dp/...

has some serious street cred as a physicist

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/198...

and as a promoter science education reform. (I heard him speak on the latter subject in my town at a science museum a few years ago.) I agree with you that a term like that probably needs explanation in a popular article about physics, but I can think of much more harmful terms in popular articles about science.

    but I can think of much more harmful terms