Precisely. Sadly scientists (like other humans) are all too willing to step aside and let the press do whatever it pleases to maximize their publicity. The 'las

Precisely. Sadly scientists (like other humans) are all too willing to step aside and let the press do whatever it pleases to maximize their publicity. The 'last psychiatrist' had a recent posting relating this to how certain scientific facts appear to later become unreproducible. The truth being that the original research was merely misrepresented, usually via a motivated lack of skepticism and disregard of nuance.