> The Gell-Mann amnesia effect is a cognitive bias where a person spots major errors in a media report on a topic they know well, yet completely forgets that unreliability and trusts the rest of the same publication on unfamiliar topics.

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dofm an hour ago | parent [-]

Yes. I am broadening the definition of "media" and "publication", maybe, though it is posts on his own publishing platform and performances at his own breakaway conference.

But if someone misrepresents deliberately on a topic of polarising importance, why would you spend any time listening to them on any other topic?

I would (still) listen to him if I did not know he wrote stupid wrong things on other topics in bad faith.

	▲	goosejuice 7 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Apparently somewhere between a third to a half of American scientists believe in some kind of god. Not to denegrate those who believe, but that's some kind of compartmentalization going on. Politics isn't any different. I dunno, I guess I don't have much issue listening to people with whom I disagree. Some people just get stuck on things. I do to, and maybe I'm the one that's wrong.