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the moment a room full of smart people collectively agrees to say the dumbest possible thing.
means a decision-making failure where the desire for consensus overrides realistic evaluation of alternatives.
from coined by psychologist Irving Janis in 1972, studying disasters like the Bay of Pigs invasion, where brilliant advisors talked themselves into a terrible plan because nobody wanted to be the dissenting voice.
named afterorwell's newspeak, deliberately, as a warning
key symptomillusion of unanimity, even when doubts exist
antidotejanis suggested assigning an official devil's advocate
famous casenasa engineers silenced before the challenger disaster