The hypocritical side of the Nobel Prize

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

The larger the prize, the more eager to get it at any cost, and the more attention these races attract, the more crows are circling over the winners and losers, and the more scandals.

The larger the prize, the more eager to get it at any cost, and the more attention these races attract, the more crows are circling over the winners and losers, and the more scandals. Any prestigious award is an apple of discord, behind which there is a line of people willing to sell their souls. Beauty contests, Oscars, and the Nobel Prize, founded in 1895, confirm this version.

Fritz Haber "the father of chemical weapons"

Fritz Haber is one of the most controversial Nobel Prize winners. For some, he is an outstanding revolutionary scientist in industrial chemistry. For others, he is the vile killer who ran the chemical warfare program in Germany during World War I.

Born to a Jewish family in Breslau (now Wroclaw), the inventor whose main achievement is considered to be the invention of an innovative method of synthesizing ammonia gas, which is an essential component for the production of fertilizers, may have saved billions of people from hunger.

Actually, for this he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1918. But during World War I, Haber devoted his research to developing chemical weapons for the German army.

As head of the chemistry department of the German War Ministry, he pioneered the use of chlorine in trench warfare, which earned him his middle name "the father of chemical warfare." Chlorine gas is a ruthless weapon designed to mercilessly kill enemy troops.

Driven by the breeze, the gas creeps along the ground in order to then dive into the enemy's trench and strangle all living things. According to statistics, more than a million soldiers of the First World War died as a result of a chemical gas strike.

Peter Handke - patron saint of genocide

According to the will of Alfred Nobel, the Literature Prize is awarded to the author who created the most significant literary work of an idealistic orientation. But if you look at the list of laureates, you will find few familiar names, even fewer your favorite names.

One can only pity the members of the Nobel Committee, who are forced to decide whose work is better. What standards can you be guided by besides your own literary taste, which readers inevitably boo.

This year, the award went to Peter Handke, who is not particularly outstanding in terms of literature, but “politically foul-smelling” like a Western scent.

The Austrian playwright was accused of betraying "moral ideals", since he does not consider Milosevic guilty of genocide and does not condemn the Serb victory in Srebrenica, when, in 1995, the united Bosnian-Serb forces brutally cracked down on dozens of Bosnian Muslims who before that, for three whole years, the entire population of the city was brutally tortured with the blessing of the UN peacekeepers present there.

Well-known lovers of truth - Western writers and activists were outraged by the fact that the award was given to Peter Handke. Jennifer Egan, president of an organization dedicated to protecting and promoting free speech in the United States and around the world, was "shocked by the choice of a writer who used his position to distort historical truth and publicly cast his vote in defense of a genocidal perpetrator." …

Carey Mullis - addict astrologer

Nominated LSD and astrology lover, Carey Mullis, shared the laurels with Michael Smith in 1993 for his outstanding discoveries in DNA research. Mullis played a key role in the development of a method known as polymerase chain reaction (PCR).

This brilliant invention allows scientists to create millions of duplicate DNA molecules. PCR is considered one of the most significant breakthroughs of the 20th century, which is quite effective and cheap for detecting a wide variety of infections, but is used in everything from analyzing fossils to identifying criminals.

Despite the fact that according to the horoscope sign Mullis is Capricorn, and they, as everyone knows, “embody pragmatism, reliability and stability. These sober analysts stand firmly on their feet and live in the real world, not indulging in baseless fantasies and illusions,”he did not develop a relationship with sobriety, and perhaps it was LSD in him that claimed that he was abducted by an alien luminous raccoon, and AIDS and HIV doesn't exist.

António Egas Moniz - inventor of the lobotomy

Today, lobotomy is an outdated medical practice and an attribute of horror stories about life in mental hospitals, more reminiscent of the medieval method of torture than a form of psychiatric treatment. But more recently, this procedure has been called "the elementary and safe treatment" for mental illness and awarded the Nobel Prize for it.

Naturally, sticking sharp objects into the brain and groping around there led to some side effects: to the loss of the patient's personality, and sometimes to the vegetative state of the healed. Moniz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1949 for developing a "leukotomy" (a pseudonym for an immoral procedure).

It can be considered that the receipt of the Nobel Prize legitimized the procedure, and in this regard, the Nobel Committee received calls to cancel the award. But these healthy-looking citizens believe that "there is no reason to be indignant about what was done in the 1940s, because at that time there were no other alternative ways" to appease patients, which, by the way, most often became too emotional and nervous wives and sisters.

Jean-Claude Arnault - pissed-off sinister

In 2018, Jean-Claude Arnault, one of Sweden's leading cultural figures and also the husband of a committee member, faced serious sexual assault and financial fraud charges.

Eighteen women accused 72-year-old Arnault of sexual harassment, it also turned out that, demonstrating his heroic power, he disclosed the names of the winners of the previously laid down, and besides, it turned out that the noble family financed their projects from the Nobel Foundation.

It was possible to give a prize to a cheerful old man, but instead, his wife was kicked out of the academy, and six more followed her in protest.