I'm a little surprised by the media frenzy surrounding this announcement. Raising public awareness of science is a Good Thing(TM) but the significance of this f

I'm a little surprised by the media frenzy surrounding this announcement. Raising public awareness of science is a Good Thing(TM) but the significance of this find seem to be overblown to the point of sensationalism. "But despite a television teaser campaign with the slogan 'This changes everything' and comparisons to the moon landing and the Kennedy assassination, the significance of this discovery may not be known for years. An article to be published on Tuesday in PLoS ONE, a scientific journal, will report more prosaically that the scientists involved said the fossil could be a 'stem group' that was a precursor to higher primates, with the caveat, 'but we are not advocating this.'" - NYT on the media build up: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/19/business/media/19fossil.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/19/business/media/19fossil.ht...