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C_Pain posted...

Why should he have stopped if he was right about everything?

There's a known phenomenon called "nobel syndrome" where genius scientists in a particular field end up winning a nobel prize and then end up going way off the deep end and promotin all kinds of whacky fringe nonsense. The thought is that their prestige as a nobel prize winner blinds them to their own confirmation bias (i.e. "I have a nobel prize, I must be right about everything").

Even putting that aside, it takes a considerable amount of expertise to be right about anything at all. For someone to just go off into all kinds of random tangents of science is unusual hollywood stuff, not really what happens in real life.

The weird thing here is that he was right about nearly all of this stuff, and more importantly he actually conducted the experiments really well.