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Re:Nobel Prize winner Gregg Semenza tallies tenth retraction by pyrale on Thursday February 15, 2024 @01:47AM (#39379828)
It's a pretty common thing, too [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease

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Re:Nobel Prize winner Gregg Semenza tallies tenth retraction by aleph_minus_one on Thursday February 15, 2024 @05:42AM (#39381135)
Concerning Nobel disease:

Couldn't is be that what makes (some) Nobel-prize-worthy discoveries possible is an openness with respect to "crazy" ideas, of which some small amount actually turn out to be right, and thus lead to Nobel prizes?

So, I think these Nobel prize winners just continue as before: thinking about and exploring "crazy" ideas that might have a huge impact if they turned out to be right. It's just that the next times, it will be the very common situation that these crazy ideas won't be right?

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Re:Nobel Prize winner Gregg Semenza tallies tenth retraction by whatevertrevor on Thursday February 15, 2024 @10:36AM (#39383942)
Feels like a case of Berkson's bias[1] to me.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%27s_paradox

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