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Record 1 2024-12-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of Ideologies
CONT

Sometimes called "nobelitis," the term "Nobel disease" refers to a tendency for Nobel Prize-winning scientists to go off on wild, often irrational or pseudoscientific tangents following their acquisition of this coveted (by some measures, the most-coveted of all scientific recognitions) designation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie des idéologies
CONT

Le syndrome du prix Nobel, ou [la] nobélite, désigne une tendance étrange de certains lauréats du prix [Nobel] à penser tout savoir sur tout et à proposer des thèses aberrantes sur des sujets qu'ils ne connaissent pas.

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