| | The '''Nobel Prize''' is an often-politicized award that is criticized for increasing evidence of bias and possibly even corruption. It has been ostensibly given for achievements in [[physics]], [[chemistry]], [[medicine]] or [[physiology]], [[literature]], and [[peace]]. Named in honor of [[Alfred Nobel]], the first prize was granted in 1901. He would state, ''"To the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the formation and spreading of peace congresses."'' <ref>[http://nobelpeaceprize.org/en_GB/alfred-nobel/testament/ Alfred Nobel's Will | Nobels fredspris, Nobelpeaceprize.org]</ref> The award for [[economics]], the "Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel," was added in 1969 and is sometimes called a Nobel Prize.<ref name="NobelHistory">The Nobel Foundation: [http://nobelprize.org/nobelfoundation/history/lemmel/index.html History]</ref> | | The '''Nobel Prize''' is an often-politicized award that is criticized for increasing evidence of bias and possibly even corruption. It has been ostensibly given for achievements in [[physics]], [[chemistry]], [[medicine]] or [[physiology]], [[literature]], and [[peace]]. Named in honor of [[Alfred Nobel]], the first prize was granted in 1901. He would state, ''"To the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the formation and spreading of peace congresses."'' <ref>[http://nobelpeaceprize.org/en_GB/alfred-nobel/testament/ Alfred Nobel's Will | Nobels fredspris, Nobelpeaceprize.org]</ref> The award for [[economics]], the "Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel," was added in 1969 and is sometimes called a Nobel Prize.<ref name="NobelHistory">The Nobel Foundation: [http://nobelprize.org/nobelfoundation/history/lemmel/index.html History]</ref> |
| − | '''''As an unwritten rule, the award is not given to a [[conservative]] (such as [[Ronald Reagan]] or [[Pope John Paul II]]) or scientists advocating [[intelligent design]], and it is not given to anyone who challenges the scientific establishment on the issues of the [[theory of evolution]] or [[theory of relativity]], such as standouts Raymond Damadian, [[Fred Hoyle]] and [[Robert Dicke]]'''''. The Nobel Prize is not given to any scientist who criticizes, publicly or privately, a [[liberal]] icon; the renowned physicist [[Edward Teller]] was denied the prize for criticizing the liberal [[J. Robert Oppenheimer]], and the eminent physicist [[John Wheeler]] was denied the prize for privately supporting Teller. | + | '''''As an unwritten rule, the award is not given to a [[conservative]] (such as [[Ronald Reagan]] or [[Pope John Paul II]]) or scientists advocating [[intelligent design]], and it is not given to anyone who challenges the scientific establishment on the issues of the [[theory of evolution]] or [[theory of relativity]], such as standouts Raymond Damadian, [[Fred Hoyle]] and [[Robert Dicke]]'''''. The Nobel Prize is not given to any scientist who criticizes, publicly or privately, a [[liberal]] icon; the renowned physicist [[Edward Teller]] was denied the prize for criticizing the liberal [[J. Robert Oppenheimer]], and the eminent physicist [[John Wheeler]] was denied the prize for privately supporting Teller. In the case of Hoyle, the liberal Nobel committee humiliated him by awarding the prize to an underling on Hoyle's work, but not to Hoyle. |
| | In 1949 the Nobel Prize in Medicine was given to Dr. Egas Moniz for his pioneering work in frontal lobotomies<ref>http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1949/moniz-article.html#</ref>, legitimizing the practice. Tens of thousands of handicapped victims were permanently maimed and mutilated in the United States alone by this barbaric procedure in the following years.<ref>http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Lobotomy.html</ref> | | In 1949 the Nobel Prize in Medicine was given to Dr. Egas Moniz for his pioneering work in frontal lobotomies<ref>http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1949/moniz-article.html#</ref>, legitimizing the practice. Tens of thousands of handicapped victims were permanently maimed and mutilated in the United States alone by this barbaric procedure in the following years.<ref>http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Lobotomy.html</ref> |