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I can't quite agree, from my (albeit limited) observation, the copy-paste hype from press offices is almost always the source of ridiculous overstatements that make people distrust science. The press office's job is to make the university look as good as possible, and when they play the game of telephone with the researchers, they tend to overhype far more than a disinterested reporter would. MIT press office in particular is terrible at this, as are many lesser-known but aspiring schools.