Betteridge&#x27;s Law is named after Ian Betteridge, a technology journalist, who wrote directly on the subject.<p>Sturgeon&#x27;s Law is named after Ted Sturgeon, a fiction writer, who actually basically coined the phrase originally (I think he did anyway).<p>Michael Crichton, on the other hand, did not call his idea &quot;Crichton&#x27;s Law of Media Analysis&quot;. He deliberately gave it an obfuscatory name and attempted to associate it with a well regarded physicist to give the impression that the law was scientific in some way. It was a deliberate misdirection, done for effect.<p>Because of the intrinsically duplicitous nature of the name &quot;Gell-Mann Amnesia&quot; I think its inappropriate to continue referring to the effect under that name. Call it Crichton&#x27;s Law or whatever. Lets not repeat the original misdirection though. It is fundamentally dishonest and does a disservice to the legacy of Murray Gell-Mann.