> The frustrating part is that Woit is right: mainstream media has completely lost the ability to report intelligently on technical subjects. Did it ever have

> The frustrating part is that Woit is right: mainstream media has completely lost the ability to report intelligently on technical subjects. Did it ever have it? Things such as this remind me of the Gell-Mann amnesia effect, when you notice the media is wrong about something you know, but still trust it on everything else. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect