Major examples.
- Pierre Curie (Physics, 1903) — His support
for psychic medium Eusapia Palladino.[8] - Marie Curie (Physics, 1903 and Chemistry, 1911) — Her support for Eusapia Palladino (though less so than Pierre, see above).
- John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh (Physics, 1904) — Paranormal, ghosts[9][10]
- Philipp Lenard
(Physics, 1905) — Deutsche Physik[11]
- Joseph Thomson (Physics, 1906) — Psychic, dowsing and paranormal[12]
- Alexis Carrel (Physiology or Medicine, 1912) — eugenics and Nazi racial theories.[13]
- Charles Richet (Physiology or Medicine, 1913) — ESP, paranormal, dowsing, ghosts[14]
- Albert Einstein (Physics, 1921) — Endorsed a psychic in 1932.[15][16]
- Erwin Schrödinger (Physics, 1933) — Quantum mysticism and global consciousness[17][18][19] and cruelty to cats
- Otto Stern (Physics, 1943) — Psychokinesis and Pauli effect[20]
- Ernst Boris Chain (Physiology or Medicine, 1945) — Evolution denial[21]
- Wolfgang Pauli (Physics, 1945) — Pauli effect, psychokinesis and paranormal[22][23]
- Hideki Yukawa (Physics, 1949) — Intuition and mysticism superior to logic and reason, anti-science and Taoist relativism[24]
- Linus Pauling (Chemistry, 1954, and Peace, 1962) — Vitamin C quackery/orthomolecular medicine[25]
- William Shockley (Physics, 1956) — Racialism and eugenics[26]
- James Watson (Physiology or Medicine, 1962) — Promoter of racialism[27][28]
- Eugene Wigner (Physics, 1963) — Quantum mysticism[citation needed]
- John Eccles (Physiology or Medicine, 1963) — Quantum consciousness[29]
- Julian Schwinger (Physics, 1965) — Pushed cold fusion as late as 1991.[30]
- Alfred Kastler (Physics, 1966) — Paranormal[31]
- Hannes Alfvén (Physics, 1970) — Plasma cosmology[32]
- Ivar Giaever (Physics, 1973) — Global warming denial[33]
- Brian Josephson (Physics, 1973) — Psychic and paranormal phenomena.[34] Cold fusion.[35] Water memory and homeopathy.[36][37]
- Nikolaas Tinbergen (Physiology or Medicine, 1973) — Crank theories of autism[38]
- Kary Mullis (Chemistry, 1993) — Generally barking mad. AIDS denial, alien abduction, Aliensdidit, astrology, astral projection, conspiracy theories, cosmic raccoons, global warming denial, ozone denial. Possibly related to his heavy use of LSD.[39][40]
- Walter Gilbert (Chemistry, 1980) — AIDS denial[41]. Although there are claims he is no longer skeptical of the claim HIV causes AIDS. The source for that seems to be a message board post that no longer exists.
- Richard Smalley (Chemistry, 1996) — Creationism, Intelligent Design and evolution denial[42][43]
- Louis J. Ignarro (Physiology or Medicine, 1998) — Herbalife[44]
- Luc Montagnier (Physiology or Medicine, 2008) — Homeopathy, water memory, autism quackery, AIDS cured by nutrition and vaccine hysteria[45][46][47]
