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In a speech in 2002, Crichton coined the term Gell-Mann amnesia effect, after physicist Murray Gell-Mann. He used this term to describe the phenomenon of experts believing news articles on topics outside of their fields of expertise, even after acknowledging that articles written in the same publication that are within the experts' fields of expertise are error-ridden and full of misunderstanding:
The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect is a psychological phenomenon that highlights people's tendency to forget the unreliability of media when it comes to topics they're familiar with, while still trusting the media for information on other topics.


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