> but...the research being awarded is over 30 years old! This is not irregular for the Nobel and Nobel-like awards. > To say there's not been any more notewor

> but...the research being awarded is over 30 years old! This is not irregular for the Nobel and Nobel-like awards. > To say there's not been any more noteworthy and validated discoveries in Medicine since the mid '80s, well, I just don't buy it. Who said otherwise? > in Academia, politics and "playing by the rules" is valued far more than actual results. The Nobel is an award whose supply is -- by design and definition -- massively and artificially constrained. Politics is just what happens when there are fewer resources than people who by all accounts deserve the resource. So Of course such awards are political. Your observation is just a tautology. Also, you can replace "in Academia" with "in life" and the statement will be just as true. > Just for starters, the fact that Venter still does not have a Nobel is a crime Okay, and what about all of the other names that also could have come after "Just for starters"? Not everyone who deserves a Nobel will get one. That's life.