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Not really, IgNobel doesn't mean it has to be useless: > The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think. The pr
by conistonwater 9y ago
Not really, IgNobel doesn't mean it has to be useless:
> The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative — and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology. (https://www.improbable.com/ig/ https://www.improbable.com/ig/)
- c3534l 9y agoThis is why homeopaths and ghost hunters don't sweep every year. It's not an award to shame the recipient, it's to highlight unusual or befuddling, but legitimate, scientific research.
- conistonwater 9y agoIndeed. Just for example, the levitating frog experiment is a very clear example of just that.
- slededit 9y agoYet VW won for: CHEMISTRY PRIZE [GERMANY] — Volkswagen, for solving the problem of excessive automobile pollution emissions by automatically, electromechanically producing fewer emissions whenever the cars are being tested. REFERENCE: "EPA, California Notify Volkswagen of Clean Air Act Violations", U.S. Environmental Protection Agency news release, September 18, 2015.