This Year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded to Harley King–We Hope His Experiments Will Have Good Results
I should be happy and I am, but there’s a part of me that rolled my eyes when I heard Pres. Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. I’m a little embarrassed I don’t celebrate this award as much as telomerase research, but I think I feel like Michael Russnow:
The Nobel Peace Committee has been accused in the past of trying to make a political statement, and perhaps, because they admire Obama and his groundbreaking presidency, in addition to his earlier anti-war statements and recent speech to the Muslim world, they are, by this action, hoping to jump start his ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
So, at the moment, I believe it is enormously premature for Obama to be getting this great tribute, which to a certain extent cheapens the prior recipients and the work all of them performed over so many years.
I hear the Swedish Academy saying “We don’t think Pres. Obama deserves this prize as much as Pres. Bush didn’t.”
In some ways I should be happy because if the Academy is beginning to present the awards based on hope because you can bet your Nobel dollar I’ll be earning mine soon for medicine.
I’m good for it, you know my experiments will be awesome.
“which to a certain extent cheapens the prior recipients and the work all of them performed over so many years”. With one glaring exception, this statement is probably true.
The exception? I’ll give you a hint- his last name rhymes with “snore”.
Harley,
I am right there with you. We can put our collective minds together, publish something that says that we have developed something that we hope will cure cancer and then they cannot deny our Nobel. After all, hasn’t Obama only provided a hope that things will change? Of course, we could then say that there is going to be a large increase in the number of patients who die of cancer before we can figure it out, but there is hope.
Unfortunately for us, the prizes for medicine, physics, etc. are based more on results, at least for the time being.
Josh
I will nominate you Harley because I too have great hope in your future experiments…