And yet we manage to keep ourselves reasonably informed. I subscribe to one of the major papers, and avail myself to a variety of mainstream sources. I can count on the fingers of one hand the times, over multiple decades, that I've ever looked back on an issue and felt that I had actually been misinformed. "You made one tiny mistake so your entire organization is discredited" would have been an unreasonable reaction.
So I think that Gell-Mann Amnesia, while amusing, is overblown.
So I think that Gell-Mann Amnesia, while amusing, is overblown.