The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean· Staffel 11· Folge 1

The Nobel Disease

Montag, 6. Oktober 2025 · 18 min

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Winning a Nobel Prize is a good thing—mostly. But surprisingly often, Nobel laureates go kooky and start promoting bizarre things like homeopathy, ESP, AIDS denialism, and worse. Psychologists are starting to understand why...

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