WRT number 3 (which I agree is the biggie): I've noticed science journalists and outreach folk often place a lot of emphasis on individual discoveries and hypot

WRT number 3 (which I agree is the biggie): I've noticed science journalists and outreach folk often place a lot of emphasis on individual discoveries and hypotheses. Sometimes they seem to do this to make it relatable, other times perhaps just because those particular facts are "cool". Other times (usually not in physics) it's an over-eagerness to spread results that, if correct, could genuinely help people, but aren't really properly established yet. It's easy to get people excited about individual ideas, but it ultimately has the downside that the _majority_ of these ideas will end up in the infinite discard bin.