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[–] btsax@reddthat.com 10 points 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.