“Nobel disease” or “nobelitis” is an informal term for the tendency of some Nobel Prize winners to embrace ideas that are considered strange or scientifically unsound, usually later in life. The term refers to the inflated ego and excessive self-confidence that can come with the Nobel Prize, and how this can lead to Nobel Laureates spending their later years pursuing pseudoscientific, impossible, or insane ideas. For example, Linus Pauling, the 1954 Nobel Prize winner for chemistry, studied the impact of high doses of vitamin C on schizophrenia and cancer, and some have claimed his data is flawed.