This PHD comic is a good gauge on what really happened to a scientific find before it goes mainstream (H1N1 flu variant, the LHC, etc).
It’s one of the reasons why I tend to be a bit skeptical on any news article on the H1N1 flu variant. While I sympathize anyone who had and has contracted the H1N1 flu variant, I find it deplorable to hype and sensationalize the disease as it seems to me to give a lack respect for others who had been or are currently struck with deadlier variants or other deadlier diseases.
