Nitpicking a bit, but Gell-Mann amnesia isn't that. Its about generally trusting newspapers/journalists and then reading an article about a theme you're familia

Nitpicking a bit, but Gell-Mann amnesia isn't that. Its about generally trusting newspapers/journalists and then reading an article about a theme you're familiar with. Then you realize that the journalist is full of it and got things completely wrong. By turning the newspapers page you start reading an article about something you're not familiar with. You immediately forget the BS from the page before and continue reading (probably same sort of BS) from another journalist but this time you're again trusting the newspapers as some kind of good source of truth. I've butchered the explanation, but its described much better here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmnesiaEffect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmnes... PS I've seen this effect many times in my life first hand and its frankly astonishing how much power some journalists wield and some don't even know it.