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Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well... You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect...
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.
You will never see a letter from the occupied country of Palestine as to their full arrogant intent to bomb the Iranian embassy in Damascus in the...
"Die Schweizer sind reich, aber auch unheilbar dumm" ‒ Eine Ukrainerin über ihren Alltag in Zürich [Link]
Though some(or all) of this be true; I've been reading Snyder's stuff for over a year now. And, I've found him to be a real 'doom and gloomer',...
From the article: In 2009, Sweden's largest daily newspaper, Aftonbladet , reported testimony that the Israeli army was kidnapping and murdering...
Look at maps from pre-WW1. Here's what you won't find shown as "countries". In every single case you will see they are part of the Russian Empire:...
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I, for one, hadn't ever wondered it made a difference. But it surely does. It just requires us to have a look at juvenile drug users and if they regularly make their meals with their parents and their family. NO, they don't. And I know how easier it was for me at school when I used to have, regularly, family lunch or dinner meetings at home or at a relative's house. And all the family gathered together MADE such a difference! A sense of unity, of support, of integrity, which cannot be substituted by phone conversations, shallow, brief, curtly addressed.
Thanks indeed for the article. It is fundamental to have scientific studies backing up common sense. Reading it I felt like a person who has known her entire life a particular thing, but only knew to express it colloquially, without a scientific basis, only aided by her life experience and common sense. And she rightly discovers she knew it all along when out of the blue she finds out it has been studied, and scientifically testified.
Thanks indeed.