The rest of you can look it up.

The Holy Spirit is right and accurate. Humans are always wrong or lying about something or other.

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 with renewed interest as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about far-off Palestine than it was about the story you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

That is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. I’d point out it does not operate in other arenas of life. In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything they say. In court, there is the legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part, untruthful in all.-Aesop

That happens all the time here. I don’t call it an effect of amnesia but rather of the basic human reliance and trust in self proclaimed experts that aren’t worth the value of the paper their credentials are printed on, sheepskin or no sheepskin.

When humans are listening to those they perceive as “experts”, their brain shuts off like they are in front of an idiot box. This is part of our monkey see monkey do learning process.

That’s when I proclaim myself an expert, it’s always a result of a competition against another expert. The self proclamation is a hidden joke in itself.

Wow… too many syllables for me. I’ve always just gone with the three ‘W’s.

Wealthier? Oppressor
Whiter? Oppressor
More Western? Oppressor

Seems to end up at the same place as hyperinfracanidmania, though.

Another part of the problem is that the eschatology of Islam says that the reestablishment of Israel kicks off the end times.

So one might say their denial to recognize Israel, denial to recognize Jewish history and the inscrutable denial that Jews are real Jews– are theological loopholes to get Muslims off the hook for the holy war which, according their most excellent book, must be initiated when Jews return to Israel. Maybe it’s a humanitarian effort on their part, (or heresy depending,) to stave off the apocalypse.

Plus, they are supposed to win, but, there’s the other problem.

Of course, because I am Jewish, I feel the need to apologize for writing that, sorry.

EVERY normal-thinker/political conservative should send this article to any liberals – and especially liberal Jews – that they know.

http://www.seraphicpress.com/purim-the-deeply-anti-progressive-jewish-holiday-3/

Some of the lying that occurred during the reconstruction of Iraq — frustrated by Iraqis blowing up// burning down their own assets — strains credulity.

And we’re not talking about the guy in the street, rather the most educated socially connected players.

Simply put, they ALL do it.

It’s a social norm for them.

Then, they lie about lying, but of course.

A typical lie would cover the fact that a construction project is way, way behind schedule, and that even the foundation is not yet poured.

It eventuated that Americans had to send other Americans out to verify all ‘ground truth.’ There were simply NO Iraqis that failed to lie at the drop of a hat — with many an Oscar winning performance, too.

So, it’s as if — for all practical purposes — you’re dealing with children — three-year old children — standing over a broken cookie jar.

To the American mind, why tell a lie that is CERTAIN to be exploded, which is certain to blow-back upon oneself?

To the Arab mind, let’s see how long I can keep my BS levitated?

And the more absurd, more extreme, well that’s all the better.

I give you the crazy lies from Cairo during the first day of the Six Day War. Those lies were directly responsible for the loss of Jerusalem, as they made the Jordanians make all of the wrong moves.

Strangely, but true, the Jordanians did NOT prioritize holding onto Jerusalem. Instead they let an Egyptian general order them into an insane attack intended to split Israel in half. That’s where all of the missing Jordanian defenders were sent. (!) They did so based upon the lies spewed out of Cairo.

If left to their own impulses, the Jordanians would’ve hunkered down for an infantry fight all across Jerusalem. As 1948 showed, that would’ve been a nightmare battle for all concerned.

Dyan was astounded at how rapidly his parachute boys took the key positions. Nothing followed expectations — for both sides.

We see this lying culture with most immigrant Arabs. They can’t shake it. They all operate like the rag merchant in “Casablanca.”

I give you “Clockmed” … or these latest hijab sisters — awarded an astounding $180,000 because they had their booking photo taken.

What a scam.

https://www.omsj.org/blogs/gell-mann-effect

(FWIW, I read Murray Gell-Mann’s autobiography, where he describes the origin of the syndrome relative to his own reactions, which was “popularized” by Michael Crichton.)

“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect works as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. 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. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.

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 with renewed interest as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about far-off Palestine than it was about the story you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

That is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. I’d point out it does not operate in other arenas of life. In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything they say. In court, there is the legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part, untruthful in all.

But when it comes to the media, we believe against evidence that it is probably worth our time to read other parts of the paper. When, in fact, it almost certainly isn’t. The only possible explanation for our behavior is amnesia.”

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I think that we do actually recognize this effect, perhaps subconsciously, which is why we eventually depend on “trusted sources” for our news (e.g., Andy McCarthy on the political-legal beat, or Judith Curry on climate science, or J. E. Dyer on foreign intrigues).

Crichton is pointing out that the trust is an individual matter of your evaluation of specific experts measured against your own knowledge (or their track record for reliability), and can’t be applied to the newspaper / magazine / tv show / blog in general, the reporters or contributors having varying degrees of knowledge and bias.

Of course, the Left and the Right have different “trusted sources,” which is part of the difficulty in solving problems and having conversations, but the principle is the same.

But then – if they are wrong on what WE know, and so probably wrong on what we DON’T know, why read anything at all? Somebody must be right about something!

http://thepeoplescube.com/current-truth/flat-fatima-revolution-in-news-photography-t798.html

Another huge problem is that the Islamic faith, as I understand it—or significant branches of it—believe that although Judaism claims to have preceded Islam, the Quran (and Islam) is “truer” (as it were) than the Hebrew Bible (and the Jewish faith)—and in fact Islam actually preceded the Jewish faith, chronology be damned!. Hence it is perfectly logical for them to hold that the Hebrews/Jews perverted the “true faith” of Islam (even though the Jewish faith, and Bible, may be claimed—by those self-same perverters—to have preceded the Islamic faith, and Quran, chronologically).

Hence Judaism is a religion of lies whose purpose is to pervert—and subvert—“the true faith”, i.e., Islam, in this case).

(Indeed, there are many who would find that counter-intuitive absence of chronology a perfectly reasonable proposition…. And yes, it is especially helpful if one has paranoid tendencies, and/or believes in a faith/ideology/culture that encourages and promotes such tendencies….)

Nonetheless, there are, in the Quran, sections (oft-quoted, for what it’s worth—though not worth all that much, apparently) that indicate that Palestine belongs to the Jews:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/177182

(To be sure, proponents of such views are extremely courageous given the milieu in which they must try to get their message across….)

And although there is, most “unfortunately”, a very high rate of virulent anti-Jewishness in the Arab and Islamic world, it is not all monolithic…

So that there will always be surprises—this astonishing interview, for example:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/kuwaiti-pundit-says-israel-a-legitimate-state-not-an-occupier/