Nobel Disease

Nobel disease refers to the tendency of some Nobel Prize winners to embrace scientifically unsound ideas and express confident opinions on topics outside their expertise, often later in their careers. The phenomenon may stem from the prestige and authority that the Nobel Prize confers, combined with media amplification that treats laureates as experts on all subjects, though it remains unclear whether Nobel winners are statistically more prone to such errors than other scientists. The condition demonstrates that expertise in one field does not transfer to others, and that intelligence and scientific achievement do not inherently protect against irrationality or confirmation bias.