Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect

The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect describes how people tend to trust reputable news sources for subject areas they know well, but then forget that these same sources often make errors in other topics outside their expertise. For example, you might trust a well-known newspaper's reporting on a science story because they usually get that right, yet simultaneously recognize that the same paper might misrepresent complex scientific issues. This phenomenon highlights a tendency to forget the inaccuracies in unfamiliar topics, leading to overconfidence in the overall reliability of the media, despite the likelihood of mistakes in areas outside their expertise.