I really hate it when people express a predictable sentiment along the lines of "herp derp, digg/reddit/HN cured cancer again! It must be Tuesday!" While it's necessary to be reserved, scientific progress, especially in biomedical fields should be celebrated, not derided.
We need more researchers in the world working on these problems that benefit us all. Thinly veiled mockery of their work and the progress they're making is really unsavory and possibly quite discouraging to someone who's thinking of going into this field.
Just be grateful that progress is being made; one day you may directly benefit from that experimental drug mentioned in the article.
The complaint is levied against the reporters, not the scientists. If we actually heard from the scientists, we would generally get reserved statements about progress and good indicators. That turns into a weekly cure for cancer that doesn't really exist once we hit the "scientific" press.
In this case, it looks like the complaint is poorly founded. This is a real breakthrough working on people cancer (as opposed to mouse cancer).
When the headline "Drug made from toxic weed kills cancer" really means "Drug made from toxic weed kills [for some definitions of kill] cancer [for some definition of cancer (in mice)]", the scorn on the reporting is richly deserved. These sort of linkbaity headlines only serve to undermine the solid work and real achievements of the scientists doing the research.
We need more researchers in the world working on these problems that benefit us all. Thinly veiled mockery of their work and the progress they're making is really unsavory and possibly quite discouraging to someone who's thinking of going into this field.
Just be grateful that progress is being made; one day you may directly benefit from that experimental drug mentioned in the article.