Quantum bogodynamics is most frequently invoked to explain the sharp increase in hardware and software failures in the presence of suits;

This would appear to apply to theoretical physicists, too. Wolfgang Pauli disapproved of his name being applied to the Exclusion Principle, commonly known as the Pauli Principle as he didn't want it to be confused with the Pauli Effect. The latter referred to the tendency of lab equipment to malfunction in direct proportion to the proximity of any theoretical physicist whose theories were being tested. The strength of the Pauli Effect was a measure of the prestige of the theoretical physicist. Pauli's proudest moment was when a piece of lab equipment involved in a test of one of his theories completely self-destructed due to his presence at a railroad station several miles away.