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>I hope she gets her Nobel prize. She deserves it. If she and the others involved in identifying the root cause and coming up with the vaccine, do not get the
by rramadass 6y ago
>I hope she gets her Nobel prize. She deserves it.
If she and the others involved in identifying the root cause and coming up with the vaccine, do not get the Nobel in Medicine/Chemistry i will consider the whole "Nobel Prize" system to be a complete tool and sham.
- Papirola 6y agothe Nobel Peace Prize is sort of a sham.
- shripadk 6y ago> i will consider the whole "Nobel Prize" system to be a complete tool and sham. What was Obama given the Nobel Peace Prize for?
- Pelic4n 6y agodroning pakistanis children
- skinkestek 6y agoNo, he got the peace price before that. That said, AFAIK Obama himself found it somewhat cringeworthy when he was awarded the price, which - if it is true - makes it a lot less embarrassing on his part. Also it seems they really haven't had reason to be happy with a couple of other candidates too, one leading a country that massacred Rohingas under her leadership and one starting another war in Africa.
- stevehawk 6y agoWar is Peace
- mkolodny 6y ago"For 108 years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has sought to stimulate precisely that international policy and those attitudes for which Obama is now the world’s leading spokesman. The Committee endorses Obama’s appeal that 'Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges.' Oslo, October 9, 2009" https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2009/press-release/ https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2009/press-release/
- shripadk 6y agoReally? That deserves a Nobel Peace Prize in this day and age? Is that what we have reduced the Prize to?
- geoduck14 6y agoWell, Al Gore won it for "a really good Power Point Presentation" several years earlier, so, yeah.
- MagnumOpus 6y agoAnd two really good books, and a really good documentary film, and eight years in high political office pushing for action that aimed to saved millions of people now doomed to be displaced from climate change in the next decades. Awarding it to Obama for not being GW Bush is one thing, awarding it to Gore something entirely different.
- pampa 6y agoSome people already consider it a sham, after a certain peace prize attribution.
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- NicoJuicy 6y agoEveryone can be nominated
- geoduck14 6y agoWoah woah woah. Just take a breath and recognize that the "Nobel prize in Chemistry/Physics/Whatever" is soon 110% completely different from them "Nobel Peace Prize". It is a shame they share 2 common words. They are different.
- pampa 6y agoIf you put a rotten egg by accident into an 20 egg omlett, it is still spoiled. If you dilute a brand name with controversial actions or products, it drags the whole brand down. And it does not matter of parts of it are still good.
- pampa 6y agoO have a favourite zen koan. "Hakuin used to tell his pupils about an old woman who had a teashop, praising her understanding of Zen. The pupils refused to believe what he told them and would go to the teashop to find out for themselves. Whenever the woman saw them coming she could tell at once whether they had come for tea or to look into her grasp of Zen. In the former case, she would server them graciously. In the latter, she would beckon to the pupils to come behind her screen. The instant they obeyed, she would strike them with a fire-poker. Nine out of ten of them could not escape her beating." If a big part of the nominations is obviously politically motivated, should the others get the tea or the poker?
- rramadass 6y agoEdit: Please do not bring up "Nobel Peace Prize" in these discussions since we are dealing with basic hard sciences and not subjective social awards.