ScienceNobelitis: How winning a Nobel Prize can fuel delusions of grandeur

The article examines “Nobelitis,” an informal term for Nobel laureates who lose their self-skepticism and begin promoting unproven or unscientific claims. Linus Pauling, Luc Montagnier and James Watson are cited as examples, while Paul Nurse urges researchers to speak only about subjects they genuinely understand.

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