  A conflict has been reported between the baryon density inferred from
deuterium observations and that found from recent CMB observations by BOOMERanG
and MAXIMA. Despite the flurry of papers that attempt to resolve this conflict
by adding new physics to the early universe, we will show that it can instead
be resolved via a more careful usage of statistics. Indeed, the Bayesian
analyses that produce this conflict are by their nature poorly suited for
drawing this type of conclusion. A properly defined frequentist analysis can
address this question directly and appears not to find a conflict. Finally, a
conservative accounting of systematic uncertainties in measuring the deuterium
abundance could reduce what is nominally a 3 sigma conflict to 1 sigma.
