hannah onlinemastodon getting mainstream coverage has been such an intense demonstration of that effect where you only realize that the news is completely, outrageously wrong about the most basic shit when it talks about something you're actually familiar with
neville park@prehensile a. k. a. Gell-Mann Amnesia
@nev i knew it had a cool name!
Blake C. Stacey@prehensile @nev "Gell-Mann amnesia" was coined by Michael Crichton, a climate-science denier and generally awful person. It's entirely possible that in whatever examples he had in mind, *he* was the one in the wrong.... But if we're avoiding 4chan lingo, we should avoid that too.
brennen@nev @bstacey @prehensile i wind up re-litigating this inside my own head every time it comes up. it's such a useful concept that i could really use a name for it not coined in a talk[0] arguing that climate science is alarmist bullshit.
[0]. https://web.archive.org/web/20190808123852/http://larvatus.com/michael-crichton-why-speculate/
Martin Vermeer FCD@brennen @nev @bstacey @prehensile There is the expression 'falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus' specifically from the legal field... but we could adopt it.