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'''''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>https://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> The award is sometimes given to a liberal politician or diplomat, such as [[Al Gore]] and , [[Barack Obama]], and [[Henry Kissinger]], which can be seen as boosting his agenda. Most recently the award has been the subject of an investigation for corruption.

The Nobel Prizes are represented externally by the Nobel Foundation, a private institution entrusted with protecting the common interests of the Prize Awarding Institutions. However, the Nobel Foundation is not involved with the selection process itself. The Prize-Awarding Institutes are independent of government agencies and the Nobel Foundation itself.<ref name="NobelHistory"/> The multiple Prize-Awarding Institutes are all located in [[Sweden]], except for the Nobel Peace Prize which is awarded by the Norweigian Nobel Commitee Committee which is appointed by the norweigian parliament. ==Criteria==<!--NOTE! This section is referred to, by this name, in the Fred Hoyle and Robert Dicke articles. If this section is changed, please fix those references.-->While the actual selection process is completely secret, and people often disagree with it, there are a few things that can be said about the process, at least for the physical sciences. First, the recipient must be living at the time of the selection. (This is true for all Nobel Prizes.) Tragically, Rosalind Franklin, who worked with [[James Watson]] and [[Francis Crick]] on the discovery of the DNA code, died before she could receive the award. Peter Higgs lived to see the discovery of the Higgs Boson confirmed, receiving the award at the age of 84, after a wait of more than 50 years. Many people were concerned that he might not make it. Second, and perhaps most importantly, the discovery, if it is a theoretical one, must have withstood the test of time. This means that extremely important achievements sometimes go unrecognized for decades (as in Peter Higgs' case), as the scientific community decides whether it really had the necessary far-reaching qualities. The Nobel committee does not like to find that something they awarded a prize for turned out to be wrong. Some theoretical advances that seemed very profound and revolutionary turned out to be wrong. An example is [[Fred Hoyle]]'s "steady state creation" theory, which essentially created the field of cosmology, at a time when it was not yet a respectable field of study. He made other groundbreaking contributions to cosmology (for example, explaining where the chemical elements came from), but never received a Nobel. Another example was the Brans-Dicke gravitation theory. Robert Dicke never received a Nobel, even though he had other groundbreaking insights into the Big Bang theory and the cosmic background radiation, devised very sensitive tests of General Relativity, and invented equipment used in a lot of astronomical observations. So it's really hard to say.

[[Ronald Reagan]] is widely credited for causing the peaceful elimination of short-range nuclear weapons in Europe, for demanding the destructions of the [[Berlin Wall]], and for the end of communist control over Eastern Europe. He stood for freedom at every opportunity. He lived for more than a decade after his achievement, yet the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] was repeatedly given to liberal figures who accomplished far less, including even the person president Reagan defeatedin 1980, [[Jimmy Carter]].

Edward Teller was a brilliant physicist who became hated by [[liberals]] for developing the [[hydrogen bomb]], for not supporting a security clearance for the [[leftist]] [[icon]] and communist fellow traveler [[J. Robert Oppenheimer]], and advocating a strong defense against [[communism]]. Teller won numerous prestigious scientific awards, but was denied the Nobel Prize , and many felt it was for political reasons:<ref>http://www.stanfordu.edu/dept/news/news/2003/september24/tellerobit-924.html</ref>

[[Mahatma Gandhi]] was a nationalist opposed to international law, a form of globalism, which the people controlling the Nobel Prize opposesupport. Gandhi was nominated 12 times for the Nobel Peace Prize but never granted it.<ref name="NobelNomination"/> The Nobel Foundation has an information page detailing his nominations and the potential reasons for his lack of success.<ref>The Nobel Foundation: [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/articles/gandhi/index.html Mahatma Gandhi, the Missing Laureate]</ref> Among other things, these statements can be found on the page:

Raymond Damadian developed [[magnetic resonance imaging]] (MRI), a phenomenal medical innovation deserving of a Nobel Prize. But Damadian is reportedly a [[Young Earth Creationist]], and the Nobel committee never recognizes the achievements of someone who criticizes the theories of evolution and an old earth. Accordingly, the Nobel committee insulted Damadian by passing him over and giving the the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 to Paul Lauterbur and Peter Mansfield "for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging".<ref>The Nobel Foundation: [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2003/index.html The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2003]</ref><ref>Creation on the Web: [http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/978/ Super-scientist slams society’s spiritual sickness!]</ref>

The foremost [[British]] scientist of the 20th century, [[Fred Hoyle]], was inexplicably passed over for a Nobel Prize. It was awarded to William Alfred Fowler (with Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar) for "for his theoretical and experimental studies of the nuclear reactions of importance in the formation of the chemical elements in the universe."<ref>http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1983/index.html</ref><ref>It was in fact the apparent 'fine-tuning' of the physical constants involved that had led to Hoyle abandoning his original atheistic viewpoint. See Fred Hoyle, "The Universe: Past and Present Reflections." Engineering and Science, November, 1981. pp. 8–12</ref> Fowler's work on this was under the direction and leadership of Hoyle, and Fowler himself was "stunned" that Hoyle had been passed over for the prize.<ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/oct/03/fred-hoyle-nobel-prize/print</ref> The prize for the 1957 discovery was awarded during a time when Fred Hoyle was embarrassing [[evolutionists]] by exposing ss as a fraud the [[Archaeopteryx]] at the British Museum of History. The slight of Hoyle seemed to have been a punishment for criticizing a central claim made by the [[theory of evolution]].

Equally there have been several instances where prizes were awarded to those whom many felt did not deserve the honor. Controversy in this regard has been especially acute in the award of the Peace Prize. When [[Henry Kissinger]] was awarded the prize in 1973 the American satirist, Tom Lehrer, observed that this had rendered political satire 'obsolete'. Many were outraged by the award to [[Yasir Arafat]] in 1994, who was reportedly associated with the Munich massacre of Jewish athletes in 1972.<ref>http://media.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YzUyZjg1MTY2NjgxOTQ5Zjg2OWIwOTNjMTQxY2U4MTk=</ref> Further politicization of the award occurred Only days after [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] received his Peace Prize in 2007 when 1991, Soviet troops were ordered into the [[Al GoreGeorgia (country)#South Ossetia and conflict with Russia|sovereign republic of Georgia]] was given <ref>http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1991-01-10/news/1991010108_1_georgian-parliament-south-ossetia-georgian-police</ref><ref>[http://books.google.de/books?id=AaE4vZaz1ccC&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=South+Ossetia+1990+MVD&source=bl&ots=6Y2TUQOaZZ&sig=al53m0Wfu8m88ZSEAvu7vPIMk04&hl=de&ei=ZCyHSvuKKaHqnAOlvNTkBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#v=onepage&q=South%20Ossetia%201990%20MVD&f=false Bloodshed in the peace prize for promoting the dubious theory Caucasus. Violations of manHumanitarian Law and Human Rights in the Georgia-made South Ossetia Conflict]. Human Rights Watch. April 1, 1992. On January 5, 1991, which is Christmas Day locally, tanks and artillery from Russia's 58th army and [[Global WarmingKGB|Russian Interior Ministry (MVD)]]were dispatched to South Ossetia.</ref> and shot unarmed civilians, killing hundreds.<ref>See also [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EInKmH7RNcQ April 9, 1989 Massacre of Women in Tbilisi by Russians] Video.</ref> In 1978 [[Menachem Begin]] won the Peace Prize, who then started the 1982 Lebanon War culminating in the Sabra and Shatila massacres.<ref>http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Famous-Zionist-Quotes/Story703.html</ref> The Peace Prize has often been awarded only a year or so after the political agenda events that has no clear connection with "peace"have merited the award, and not for lifetime achievement. The Arafat award is particularly controversial in this respect.

Further politicization of the award occurred in 2007 when [[Al Gore]] was given the peace prize for promoting the dubious theory of man-made [[Global Warming]], a political agenda that has no clear connection with what is true peace. Bias is facilitated by the haste in awarding The the Peace Prize, which in Gore's case seemed to be timed to boost a potential presidential campaign. The Peace Prize has often been awarded only a year or so after the political events that have merited the award, and often well before the long term consequences of those events have become clear (and Arafat's award is particularly controversial in this respect).

Some praise the Nobel Peace Prizes given in 1991 to Aung San Suu Kyi for her heroic struggle against the brutal military dictatorship in [[Myanmar]] (Burma) and the award in 1996 to Jose Ramos Horta and Bishop Belo of [[East Timor]] in recognition of their struggle against the oppressive and, at times, genocidal occupation of that country by the [[Indonesia]]n government. The awarding of the prize in 1984 to Archbishop Emeritus [[Desmond Tutu]],<ref>[http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1984/ 1984 Nobel Peace Laureates]</ref>, was condemned by the [[apartheid]] regime as a political ploy, but celebrated everywhere else, as was the joint award to Presidents [[Nelson Mandela]] and [[F.W. de Klerk]] in 1993 ,<ref>[http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1993/ 1993 Nobel Peace Laureates]</ref>, for their efforts in uniting [[South Africa]] in the build-up to the first fully democratic elections. <ref>Incidentally, the awards to Tutu and Mandela have resulted in Vilakazi Street in Soweto, Johannesburg, becoming the only street in the world to be home to two different laureates.</ref>