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Yeah you have a good point - not sure if there’s a name for what you’re referencing but it’s tough to be an expert in something and read a bunch of cringe pop s
by dieselgate 3y ago
Yeah you have a good point - not sure if there’s a name for what you’re referencing but it’s tough to be an expert in something and read a bunch of cringe pop sci articles on your field. This topic comes up frequently with my partner who is a researcher - Ed Yong recently wrote a piece on some work by their lab and it was “tolerable”.
Not a huge fan of Quanta myself but Aeon frequently has articles written by researchers/experts and are higher quality in my opinion.
Interesting to hear about Kvant!
- notRobot 3y 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." https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/ https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/