• btsax@reddthat.com
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    1 day ago

    A lot of nobel laureates believe/believed a lot of unhinged nonsense. Some of my favorites:

    1. Linus Pauling thought overdosing on vitamin C could cure all kinds of medical problems

    2. James Watson and William Shockley were eugenicists

    3. Irving Langmuir believed large-scale weather manipulation was possible with the technology available in the 1970s

    4. Luc Montagnier was really into homeopathy and spread COVID vaccine/5G conspiracy theories

    5. Kary Mullis denied that HIV causes AIDS

    Just winning a Nobel doesn’t automatically make someone right about everything, even in their own field.