“Nobel disease” is a term designed to describe whatever it is that drives some Nobel laureates to embrace pseudoscience or quackery later in their careers. One of its most prominent victims, Luc Montagnier, co-discoverer of the AIDS virus, recently demonstrated that he’s still suffering from Nobel disease when he laid down a barrage of antivaccine pseudoscience in Paris earlier this month.
![Henri Joyeux and Luc Montagnier](https://i0.wp.com/www.respectfulinsolence.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/joyeux-montagnier.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1)