English Explanatory Dictionary

Gell-Mann Amnesia effect

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

Gell-Mann Amnesia effect Gell-Mann Amnesia effects

Etymology

Coined by American author Michael Crichton in a 2002 speech, named after American physicist Murray Gell-Mann (see quotation).

Synonyms

Gell-Mann Amnesia
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