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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: Gell-Mann Amnesia
Antonyms: none provided
History
Coined by American author Michael Crichton in a 2002 speech, named after American physicist Murray Gell-Mann (see quotation).
