Paparazzi physics?

I just read this term, “paparazzi physics”, in Scientific American. Recently, several papers were published on the PAMELA result referencing not a published paper, not even an unpublished draft on arxiv.org, but photographs of a set of slides that were shown during a conference presentation. An appropriate description! But, I think “paparazzi physics” can be used also in a broader sense, describing an alarming trend in the physics community to jump on new results long before they’re corroborated, in order to prove or disprove a theory, conventional or otherwise.