There is now an update the the FAQ page "What is the experimental basis
of Special Relativity?".

There has been a renaissance in tests of Special Relativity (SR), in
part because considerations of quantum gravity imply that SR may well be
violated at appropriate scales (very small distance, very high energy).
It has been seven years since the last update of this page, and there
are over 60 new experiments, many of which are recent, ingenious, and
improve bounds on violations of local Lorentz invariance by several or
many orders of magnitude.

The update also includes a larger section on "Experiments Which
Apparently are not Consistent with SR/GR", giving MUCH better reasons
for dismissing many of the results -- in most cases errorbars or
considerations related to them provide a solid and compelling reason for
considering the experiment to be inconclusive or downright wrong.

The update can be found here:
http://www.edu-observatory.org/physics-faq/Relativity/SR/experiments.html (Who's computer is this?)

NOTE: All of the other FAQ mirrors are not updating. It has been almost
a month since the update was issued, but the mirrors are not updating.
It seems they are all broken, or use a manual mirroring strategy. If you
manage one of the FAQ mirrors, please update it.

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Tom Roberts