>"Another problem with sources is that science news also frequently just repeats press releases without actually saying where they got their information from. I

>"Another problem with sources is that science news also frequently just repeats press releases without actually saying where they got their information from. It’s a problem because university press releases aren’t exactly unbiased." This is probably why exaggerated claims from press releases usually just get passed on and, frequently, exaggerated. Even someone educated in the field doesn't have time to dig into 3 or 4 new sub-fields a day and actually understand the papers that press releases are talking about. e.g. A physicist with a background in optics is better situated than most to understand an experimental quantum cryptography paper, but they're still going to have to bang their heads against several walls to figure out what's going on. Head-banging takes time. Copying from a press release doesn't.