  The Coulomb dissociation of 8B, measured with high precision by the GSI
group, is in excellent agreement with the astrophysical cross section factor
(S17) measured by the Weizmann group with a 7Be target. The GSI and Weizmann
data are in good agreement with the Seattle data at high energies, but at low
energies we observe a slight systematic (up to 2sigma) deviation, yet the
Seattle group repeatedly rejects the CD method. We show that when plotting the
slopes, they mis plotted one CD data point and exclude measured slopes that
contradict their claim. Indeed the measured slope is essential to elucidate the
d-wave correction to S17(0) that could be as large as 15%, and is the last open
question that needs to be resolved before S17(0) can be quoted with an accuracy
of 5% or better. We show that this goal has not been achieved (in spite of the
strong claim of the Seattle group), since currently there is no agreement among
experiments as well as among theoretical models on the value of the slope. In
addition, currently there is no theoretical framework within which (for example
the Seattle) data can be analyzed and S17(0) extrapolated with the claimed high
precision of 2.5%. This (last) issue of the slope and the d-wave correction
must be resolved (by future measurements) so as to allow quoting S17(0) with an
accuracy of 5% or better.
