http://boingboing.net Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sun, 19 May 2013 13:10:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://boingboing.net/2012/10/10/the-nobel-prize-in-quackpotter.html http://boingboing.net/2012/10/10/the-nobel-prize-in-quackpotter.html#comments Wed, 10 Oct 2012 18:31:13 +0000 Maggie Koerth-Baker http://boingboing.net/?p=186430 physiology, physics, and chemistry. The prizes are awarded to actual Nobel Laureates who have made deep and long-lasting contributions to undermining their own credibility by latching onto hypotheses they can't back up with evidence and then continuing to promote those hypotheses despite the lack of evidence. It's a nice reminder that scientists are human, and that even very, very smart people are not always rational people. ]]> http://boingboing.net/2012/10/10/the-nobel-prize-in-quackpotter.html/feed 15