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It's also common for people who win a Nobel Prize to go on to endorse and study widely discredited crackpot ideas. https://slate.com/technology/2015/06/tim-hunt-on-women-scientists-nobel-laureates-say-the-dumbest-things.html https://slate.com/technology/2015/06/tim-hunt-on-women-scien... It's almost as if there is something that happens once you have a major, incontestible success, that you come to believe that your victory had little to do with luck and more to do with destiny or some inherent quality that you possess, and therefore the one masterpiece is a shadow of what is to come. That foolish idea has led to many great follies.