Robert Malone wrote about the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect on his substack. This is exactly what I am experiencing with the Russia/Ukraine situation. The media + deep state has lied to us nonstop for decades - my entire life and way before – and I'm no spring chicken! So now they are all on the bandwagon against Russia which tells me something is smelling mighty swampy. This cognitive dissonance is making my brain hurt.

Malone:

The “Gell-Mann Amnesia effect” was coined by Michael Crichton, MD to describe the experience of encountering unreliable information in main stream media and the “approved narrative” in your area of expertise, and knowing by first person experience that this narrative is wrong. And then suspending your own critical thinking skills and trusting these same type of “experts” (legacy/mainstream “approved” media) in another area outside of your expertise.

His point was that one must use critical thinking skill even when outside your core competencies. Crichton’s writes:

“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 (or Russia - anon insert) than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”

– Michael Crichton (1942-2008)

In other words, think for yourself.