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Isn't it always like this. Things written tend to make sense until they contradict your prior knowledge.
by Kaiyou 7y ago
Isn't it always like this. Things written tend to make sense until they contradict your prior knowledge.
- casefields 7y ago"Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is 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, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.” Why Speculate - Michael Crichton: http://docdro.id/4wgVecr http://docdro.id/4wgVecr
- usrusr 7y agoThe author certainly lost me when he called out Italy as a winner and the Netherlands as a loser in this game. That only ever happens in football.
- perfobotto 7y agoItaly in exports is indeed successful