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Gell-Mann Amnesia effects

Gell-Mann Amnesia effects is the plural of Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.

Meaning of Gell-Mann Amnesia effect

Noun

Gell-Mann Amnesia effect (plural Gell-Mann Amnesia effects)

  1. The phenomenon of a person trusting newspapers for topics which that person is not knowledgeable about, despite recognizing the newspaper as being extremely inaccurate on certain topics which that person is knowledgeable about.
    • Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect works as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often...2002 April 26, Michael Crichton, “Why Speculate?”, in michaelcrichton.net (speech), archived from the original on 14 Jul 2007

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Gell-Mann Amnesia effects is the plural of Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.

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