defines Nobel disease or Nobelitis as "an informal term…
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defines Nobel disease or Nobelitis as "an informal term for the embrace of strange or scientifically unsound ideas by some Nobel Prize winners, usually later in life."
Nobel-winning scientist Paul Nurse has reflected on the idea https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/attention-nobel-prize-winners-advice-from-someone-who-s-already-won-8874646.html:
>Earnest requests appeared asking me to speak at strange conferences in strange places to discuss spirituality and the “wholeness of existence”. Serious appeals came ask for my comment on complex human rights issues and conflicts.
>All of this was combined with the fact that journalists and programme producers had begun to take me seriously if I did comment on issues about which I knew little. I realised that I was in danger of developing the condition I refer to as “Nobelitis” – that is, believing you are expert in almost everything, and being prepared to express opinions about most issues with great confidence, sheltering behind the authority that the Nobel Prize can give you.
Nobel disease discourse mostly focuses on science-related winners, but are there any literature Nobel laureates that fall into this category?
If we're talking about pseudoscience, one obvious example is Saul Bellow and Wilhelm Reich's "orgone therapy."
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sourceNobel Prize in Literature winners and "Nobel disease"
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease
Nobel-winning scientist Paul Nurse has reflected on the idea https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/attention-nobel-prize-winners-advice-from-someone-who-s-already-won-8874646.html:
>Earnest requests appeared asking me to speak at strange conferences in strange places to discuss spirituality and the “wholeness of existence”. Serious appeals came ask for my comment on complex human rights issues and conflicts.
>All of this was combined with the fact that journalists and programme producers had begun to take me seriously if I did comment on issues about which I knew little. I realised that I was in danger of developing the condition I refer to as “Nobelitis” – that is, believing you are expert in almost everything, and being prepared to express opinions about most issues with great confidence, sheltering behind the authority that the Nobel Prize can give you.
Nobel disease discourse mostly focuses on science-related winners, but are there any literature Nobel laureates that fall into this category?
If we're talking about pseudoscience, one obvious example is Saul Bellow and Wilhelm Reich's "orgone therapy."
#entertainment
sourceNobel Prize in Literature winners and "Nobel disease"
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease
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