[grey_whiskers]

Basically, if a guy gets a Nobel prize in the hard sciences, he’s a smart cookie in that particular field.

Several counterexamples:

Kary Mullis (polymerase chain reaction) but denies that HIV causes AIDS.

John Van Vleck (magnetism) denies magnetic monopoles but IIRC relativistic quantum (P.A.M. Dirac) allows for them. (WTF?)

The IPCC panel (chapter on Himalayan glaciers melting not based on peer review but on WWF, itself apparently cribbed from a newspaper article).

Paul Krugman (not a science but he's not much of a Nobelist either, he got eviscerated in public by Iowahawk.

Cheers!

[Kevmo]

I’m afraid I do not understand your post.