When Nobel Prize winners embrace woo...

It isn't just Linus Pauling.

Linus Pauling, who made extraordinary claims for megadoses of vitamin C and other nutrients

Brian Josephson, who has hyped transcendental meditation and advocated "water memory," a mechanism claimed to underlie homeopathy

Nikolaas Tinbergen, who promoted discredited "holding therapy" to cure autism

Kary Mullis, who denied that HIV causes AIDS

Louis J. Ignarro, who was hired as a consultant to Herbalife and and promoted Niteworks, a powdery mix of amino acids and antioxidants that he claimed would protect against heart disease by boosting the body's nitric oxide production

Luc Montaigner, who has claimed that autism can be caused by vaccines and successfully treated using antibiotics

https://skepticalinquirer.org/2020/05/the-nobel-disease-when-intelligence-fails-to-protect-against-irrationality/