Nobel laureate disease, also called the Nobel effect, nobelitis and even Nobel syndrome, is a hypothetical affiliation that would cause some Nobel laureates to award adopt strange or scientifically unproven ideas. Let's talk a little more about this Nobel effect and how it can affect great minds.
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How can the Nobel effect affect such smart people?
We are talking about one of the world's main awards, which aims to honor people who develop work, actions and research for the benefit of humanity. The award ceremony is held annually, in December, in Stockholm (Sweden) and Oslo (Norway).
The disease of the Nobel Prizes is a term used ironically with the aim of pointing out that a extremely intelligent person in a specific area will not necessarily perform the same in other.
Upon winning the title, several Swedish Academy winners ended up suffering from this effect. Several of the winners, Pierre Curie, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Richard Smalley, Luc Montagnier, who are people extremely intelligent in something, they were able to create strange ideas and feed beliefs without any success scientific.
When analyzing this effect, Shauna Bowes, a doctoral student in clinical psychology at Emory University in the United States States, she stated that “critical thinking is linked to a specific area of knowledge, not to the knowledge general".
In other words, what the doctoral student meant is that an extremely intelligent person in a given area does not necessarily have the ability to apply critical thinking and intelligent when dealing with other topics outside your scope. She goes on to say that “a lot of research shows that critical thinking is quite apart from intelligence”.
