Should the Nobel Prizes be cancelled?

[rangerrebew]

Should the Nobel Prizes be cancelled?

Have the world's most prestigious awards lost their gloss, and how might they get it back? Physicist Brian Keating explores the issue.
 

If you ever meet someone who claims to have nearly won the Nobel Prize in mathematics, walk away: You’re dealing with a deeply delusional individual. While there isn’t, and has never been, a Nobel in mathematics, the desire to claim Nobel-worthiness is sensible, for no matter the field, it is the world’s most prestigious accolade.

The annual prizes are Sweden’s most sacred holiday, bringing out royalty in the arts and sciences and a worldwide audience of millions to witness an event featuring the pomp and circumstance typically associated with the naming of a new pope. Indeed, the prizes are so important to Sweden’s national identity that the king of Sweden recently took the unprecedented step of canceling the Nobel Prize in literature for 2018. What would cause King Gustaf to take such an extraordinary step? Simply put, he did so for the same reason that Alfred Nobel founded the awards to begin with: public relations.

https://cosmosmagazine.com/society/should-the-nobel-prizes-be-cancelled

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Cancel it. Keep it. Who cares? Nobody

They lost all credibility when they gave the award to Obama after 15 days in office simply for being a homosexual Black Muslim. That was all he had done at the time. Later, he went on to overthrow Egypt and to launch drones all over the world killing God knows how many people.

The so called 'Peace Prize' is bullshit. Today, it is just a way for Leftists to supposedly honor each other with nonsense awards like this. Nobody right of Mao Zedong will ever get one, no matter if they cured cancer. This is more of a 'political award' than it is concerned with actual facts and achievements.

[Sanguine]

"Gloss"?  He's worried about their gloss?

[Smokin Joe]

Cancel it. Keep it. Who cares? Nobody

They lost all credibility when they gave the award to Obama after 15 days in office simply for being a homosexual Black Muslim. That was all he had done at the time. Later, he went on to overthrow Egypt and to launch drones all over the world killing God knows how many people.

The so called 'Peace Prize' is bullshit. Today, it is just a way for Leftists to supposedly honor each other with nonsense awards like this. Nobody right of Mao Zedong will ever get one, no matter if they cured cancer. This is more of a 'political award' than it is concerned with actual facts and achievements.

It has turned into a Global Socialist MBPA (Mutual Back Patting Association).

But there is more than the faux honor of the Peace Prize, there is a significant (10 million kroner, about $1.4 million USD) financial reward as well.

There is no Nobel for Geology, so this comment won't take me out of the running for anything (as if!).