A Different Approach to Cosmology by Fred Hoyle, Geoffrey Burbidge and Jayant Narlikar (2000) reviews the ideas behind cosmological inflation. Do their points that are critical have merit? They wrote at p. 178: "we believe that the success enjoyed by the inflationary model rests not so much on its intrinsic merit but on how it was presented to the cosmological community." Is there any merit to that observation? Does inflation have any serious shortcomings?