Stefan used this idiom to describe people who outside of their professional field are not critical and believe anyone.

[Copper_Heart]

It was something like that:

 

 

Experts who see how every "scientific journalist", or any journalist specialized in this field, is distorting or is just wrong in his understanding of the topic that he understands, believes right away to any of those journalist who are writing about things outside of his field or specialty. Like some kind of amnesia they forget or think that critical thinking is not applied anywhere outside of what they know.

 

This is not direct quote and this is not dunning-kruger. Dunning-krugger is about person who does know nothing believes he knows everything, while this one is about people loosing critical view and believing people who they do not trust in their field.

 

Thanks in advance.

[GenellanBound]

I think the term you are looking for is the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.

[Copper_Heart]

I think the term you are looking for is the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.

 

Thanks!

[SoCaliGirl]

Profoundly true...

“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is 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 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.”
― Michael Crichton