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Coined by American author Michael Crichton in a 2002 speech, named after American physicist Murray Gell-Mann (see quotation).
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Gell-Mann amnesia effect
Today it means: The phenomenon of a person trusting newspapers for topics which that person is not knowledgeable about, despite recognizing the newspaper as being extremely inaccurate on certain topics which that person is knowledgeable about. Full definition →