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Gell-Mann amnesia.

• samhw 5y ago
  Well akshually... Gell-Mann amnesia is the opposite of what they described (though it's probably still what they had in mind). It's the tendency to read reportage about something on which you're an expert, realise how wildly incorrect it is, but then to proceed to the next page of the newspaper and totally trust their reporting on another topic - as opposed to 'learning to be a lot more sceptical'. Hence the 'amnesia' bit.