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> You may consider The Toohey Award something similar to the Ig Nobel Prize. The public may safely disregard any article ever written, present-and-future, by a
by wodenokoto 6y ago
> You may consider The Toohey Award something similar to the Ig Nobel Prize. The public may safely disregard any article ever written, present-and-future, by a Toohey Award winner. [1]
There is absolutely no discrediting of scientists related to the Ig Nobel prize. Its stated aim being to "honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think." [2]
The Tooheys is an attempt at discrediting individual journalist. There is absolutely no spiritual relationship between the two.
[1] https://tooheys.org/ https://tooheys.org/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize
- makomk 6y agoI don't think this year's "Medical Education Prize" is achieving anything like that, though - it's pushing a bunch of narratives that everyone's expected to believe despite having an extremely weak foundation in reality, in an area where the very concept of prioritizing scientific evidence over politics has been twisted into a partisan political tool so throughly I'm not sure there's any way back, never mind the evidence itself.