Clouds, Not Clocks, Ctd

A reader writes:

Sure, the media play their part in the "cycle of anticipation and disappointment" with science, but scientists profit from it immensely as well. The recent New York Times article on the Human Genome Project's failure to produce miracle cures demonstrates the "disappointment" part of the cycle. But it also points out the ways in which scientists themselves were fueling the anticipation with grandiose promises of miraculous advances in medicine. Blaming the media for this cycle...