I'm not saying that. But people in the field seem to depend more and more on popularized hype to gain funding or enhance their reputations. We're seeing more of the scientist-as-Indiana Jones stuff.
One example who comes immediately to mind is the ever-flamboyant Jack Horner who served as technical adviser on the movie Jurassic Park. He never misses a chance to jump before the TV cameras to promote his notion that dinosaurs are birds. I think he's probably right but I wonder if these issues should be fought out in public instead of in dusty and dull peer-reviewed technical publications.
I'm at a loss as to how you could have more than in the past. I think Indy is just a slight exaggeration of some of the characters from the 1930s and before.