I see a reasonable number of these University press releases on HN. This was a preclinical lab study. There are literally hundreds of thousands of these studies

I see a reasonable number of these University press releases on HN. This was a preclinical lab study. There are literally hundreds of thousands of these studies, and yet as you may readily observe, cancer is still killing lots of people. The signal to noise ratio is very low for such preclinical results. They are also inferior information sources versus the actual paper. As someone who works in the oncology field, my opinion is that these press release submissions are generally of low quality. Makes me wonder why they are posted. I can see the user who submitted this has had 35 submissions in the last 6 days. 3 or 4 of these are university PR pieces about cancer, Alzheimers and some other bioscience things, along with many other disparate fields. Not sure what to make of this, and I won't guess at the motivation. I accept that some people have omnivorous interests. I guess I should just not click on such articles.