Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Nobel Scandal

O_o The Nobel Prize is usually quite respectable, but this is disturbing news:

Nobel Committee Faces Criminal Charges.
An astonishing scandal is being reported only in German media and blatantly repressed by Sweden's major daily newspapers: The Nobel Prize Committee is coming under scrutiny for possible criminal charges of bribery and corruption in connection with this year's award in medicine.

This demonstrates that if you want to know what's really going on today, you have to check newstreams from multiple countries. They filter out different stuff.

... you can't stop the signal.
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ysabetwordsmith

December 13 2008, 16:48:20 UTC 12 years ago

I said "today" because America's journalism used to be far more reliable and thorough, in my experience, than it is now. Other countries have varying degrees of reliability.
fayanora

fayanora

December 14 2008, 01:38:49 UTC 12 years ago

Grr.
browngirl

browngirl

December 14 2008, 03:16:05 UTC 12 years ago

Great googli moogli. Thank you for signal-boosting!

*goes to read about this*
pompe

pompe

December 14 2008, 20:51:41 UTC 12 years ago

Not to sound overly dismissive here, but the article confuses facts in a most serious way.

AstraZeneca being a sponsor of the NobelWeb or NobelMedia isn't really the same as influencing the Prize, because the Nobel Foundation doesn't decide who gets the prize. They run a museum, host the party and administrate the Prize money. But they don't select the awardees. For me this is faily obvious - Nobel's own testament specified the exact bodies, all respected national authorities, who would do the selection process. So when this web site taks about a Nobel Prize Committee it sounds like it is something Nobelian. It isn't. First of all, there is one for each Prize. It is a group of people from the relevant Academy who are in charge of looking over nominees.

As an example, the Prize in Literature is selected by the Swedish Academy, and the Prize in Medicine by Karolinska. Both of these institutions have Nobel Prize Committees.