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Thanks everyone for the comments. I always try to read with a little skepticism and I've always found their perspective.. a bit different. But I'll be more ca

Thanks everyone for the comments. I always try to read with a little skepticism and I've always found their perspective.. a bit different. But I'll be more cautious now. For me it was covering things you don't see at all in the US papers. I had to look up the "gell-man amnesia effect): https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2021/01/18/gell-mann-amnesia/ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2021/01/18/gell-mann-amnesia/

1cvmask 5y ago
Naming is clearly a form of branding. Thanks for that link at the bottom. There is a gem there on why Michael Crichton called it the Gell-Mann amnesia effect: By the way, why is the effect named after the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann? Crichton explained I refer to it by this name because I once discussed it with Murray Gell-Mann, and by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise have. - It reminds me of why von Neumann told Shannon to call it entropy: When Shannon first derived his famous formula for information, he asked von Neumann what he should call it and von Neumann replied “You should call it entropy for two reasons: first because that is what the formula is in statistical mechanises but second and more important, as nobody knows what entropy is, whenever you use the term you will always be at an advantage! http://www.spatialcomplexity.info/what-von-neumann-said-to-shannon/ http://www.spatialcomplexity.info/what-von-neumann-said-to-s...