Like the Oscars and Grammy's, the Nobel Prize is based as much on cultural significance as it is on the quality of the product. Lobotomies also won the Nobel P

Like the Oscars and Grammy's, the Nobel Prize is based as much on cultural significance as it is on the quality of the product. Lobotomies also won the Nobel Prize because they were a cultural phenomenon of the day. JFKs sister got a lobotomy. So even if these one and a half year old treatments prove to have significant long-term side effects there's still the recognition of the cultural and historical significance.