===== 🚀 Hype =====

**Hype** is the exaggerated promotion of an idea, technology, study, or product — often beyond its actual evidence, utility, or maturity.

In medicine, academia, and especially in the era of AI, hype acts like a smokescreen:

> *It creates excitement before there is substance — and drowns out more humble, grounded, but truly useful work.*

==== 🧠 Common forms of hype in neurosurgery and science ====

  * Overstating the impact of small studies with low-quality data  
  * Promoting “disruptive” technologies that haven’t been tested clinically  
  * Turning modest findings into press releases with inflated language  
  * Conferences that sell visions instead of results  
  * Citing innovation while hiding lack of reproducibility

==== ⚠️ Why hype is dangerous ====

  * It misleads clinicians, patients, and policymakers  
  * It distorts funding priorities  
  * It rewards exaggeration over rigor  
  * It replaces wisdom with spectacle

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> **Hype is noise that wears the costume of progress.**