Not a field, but a person who everyone thought was Nobel prize bound and it turned out to be all BS. You may think that it's just one person, but the amount of

Not a field, but a person who everyone thought was Nobel prize bound and it turned out to be all BS. You may think that it's just one person, but the amount of research dollars that got allocated to try and prove or disprove all of this work would be staggering. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schön_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schön_scandal