Earned dogmatism might also further explain the bizarre claims of the scientists with ‘Nobel Disease’ such as Kary Mullis. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, the Nobel Prize-winning Indian-American astrophysicist, observed this tendency in his colleagues. ‘These people have had great insights and made profound discoveries. They imagine afterwards that the fact that they succeeded so triumphantly in one area means they have a special way of looking at science that must be right. But science doesn’t permit that. Nature has shown over and over again that the kinds of truth which underlie nature
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