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Michael crichton speculation3/12/2023 In keeping with the trend, I will try express my views without any factual support, simply providing you with a series of bald assertions. I will join this speculative trend and speculate about why there is so much speculation. What does it mean? Why has it become so ubiquitous? Should we do something about it? If so, what? And why? Should we care at all? Isn’t speculation valuable? Isn’t it natural? And so on. ![]() My topic for today is the prevalence of speculation in media. In essence, people recognise that the media gets virtually everything wrong in media reports they know something about but credulously accept media accounts about everything else where they actually themselves know nothing. I will highlight the Gell-Mann effect where it occurs in the speech. The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect originates with a speech by Michael Crichton.
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