The Nobel prize is a joke. They gave Europe the prize for going several years without burning down the whole world. They gave it to Obama for being black.

They gave the chemistry prize to a chemical weapons guy, the medicine prize to the guy who invented the lobotomy.

People Magazine's "sexiest man alive" has more credibility because at least all the winners were good looking.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The Nobel peace prize is a joke...

The others are still usually pretty cool...

[–] Turun@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Economics is 50/50 too. It's not in the OG set of prizes and the science is hit and miss as well.

But yeah, physics, chemistry, medicine are all prizes that highlight game changing discoveries.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 5 points 11 months ago

Economics is just a shit prize, it devalues the rest of the prizes, and should never been allowed to be awarded among the others.

The litterature prize started as a good idea, but these days it has lost a lot of presteige, just looks back at when Bob Dylan was forced to get the prize.

He didn't want the prize, but the organizers still awarded him the prize, looking like a weirdly obsessive fan club.

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 11 months ago

There isn't a Nobel prize for economics, at least not really. The swedish central bank made their own price, to be awarded by the Nobel foundation

[–] pressanykeynow@iusearchlinux.fyi 5 points 11 months ago

Didn't they give it to the chemistry guy because he solved world hunger and not because of the weapons? There was an episode about him on Veritasium.