You might have misunderstood what the Gell-Mann effect is. 1. you find an article published on a topic that you know well. 2. You find that the publication is

You might have misunderstood what the Gell-Mann effect is. 1. you find an article published on a topic that you know well. 2. You find that the publication is egregiously wrong about it. 3. You laugh about it, turn the page and believe everything they write about other topics. I know technology reasonably well, and I’ve noticed every single publication I’ve read, the NYT onwards, make mistakes. In 12 years of reading the Economist (especially their fantastically informative Technology Quarterly issues) I have yet to notice them making mistakes. For this, and other reasons, I trust them. The way you’ve phrased your comment “... in written form” makes me think you don’t know what you’re talking about. But who knows, I could probably read another comment by you and think “wow that’s insightful”.