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		4thaccount on Jan 30, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Boeing 787 Suffers Rare Dual Engine Failure on Lan... I found that I now distrust a lot of articles as people tend to get the things in my field blatantly wrong all the time. Things are complicated and rarely as simple as they seem. On the other hand, I've worked on things for hours before for someone to glance at the problem and solve it. Always a humbling experience.

monochromatic on Jan 30, 2019 [–]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect

4thaccount on Jan 30, 2019 | [–]

I never knew there was a name for this, but I feel like everyone has come across this feeling at some point in their life.

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