These articles sadly derive from institutional press releases that invariably oversell the underlying work. We have an unsustainable systemic problem arising f

These articles sadly derive from institutional press releases that invariably oversell the underlying work. We have an unsustainable systemic problem arising from the need to convince governments filled with anti-science politicians to fund expensive science. The institutions therefore feel the need to oversell every tiny paper so voters and politicians believe we're getting somewhere fast and won't kill funding, but the pace of real science is always fits and starts. You see a lot of people who have somehow figured out how to search the literature and cherry pick a paper they don't like as evidence of wasteful spending, and the system believes (falsely in my view) that overselling and oversimplifying results in a language that voters and politicians can understand. Edit: I should have also said that the other big motivating factor for institutional press offices is to market the institution to other potential donors.