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This has a name. But I can’t find it.
We tend to assume news articles we don’t know much about are true although we see tons of mistakes if we are an expert in the field.

Can someone please tell me the name if this bias/effect/…? It’s driving me nuts.

@paninid

@paninid

I've heard the same thing said about Elon Musk.

@paninid @mrundkvist Michael Crichton named this effect "Gell-Mann amnesia".

From: Wikipedia:

In a speech in 2002, Crichton coined the term Gell-Mann amnesia effect to describe the phenomenon of experts reading articles within their fields of expertise and finding them to be error-ridden and full of misunderstanding, but seemingly forgetting those experiences when reading articles in the same publications written on topics outside of their fields of expertise, which they believe to be credible. He explained that he had chosen the name ironically, because he had once discussed the effect with physicist Murray Gell-Mann, "and by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise have."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect

@paninid

Oh. Worse than some so-called "journalists", then?
Disturbing…