> “The Nobel Prize folks could have done something with this year’s award to directly aid global health efforts during a 100-year pandemic. And they chose not to. This is utter dereliction. It is an indefensible decision that will cost lives,” Alexey Merz, a cell biologist at the University of Washington in Seattle, wrote on Twitter on 5 October.
Why does everything has to be about gestures nowadays? And when some people do the "wrong" thing (as opinionated by someone on Twitter) it's always utter catastrophe.
I suppose I should be replying to the tweet instead of posting about it here..
Trump's corona vaccines were just approved in the US in mid-August, 2021. (If you got vaccinated before then, thanks for being my personal guinea pig!)
Why would a Nobel get awarded to an unproven treatment?
We know about early side-effects, and every vaccine has been stopped temporarily. OSHA has been forbidden by the Biden administration from reporting employer reports of problems.
I'm interested in finding out what happens to women's reproduction systems after corona and vaccines. There are published papers confirming there's an impact, but not enough time has passed to quantify it.
Wasn’t ‘to be a gesture’ the general point of setting up the original prize? From Wikipedia’s summary:
> Having read a premature obituary which condemned him for profiting from the sales of arms, [Alfred Nobel] bequeathed his fortune to the Nobel Prize institution.
> Nominations for this year’s prizes had to be submitted by 1 February. This was more than two months after the first mRNA vaccines, and some others, proved their mettle in clinical trials, but before their impact on the pandemic was fully clear
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 27.0 ms ] threadWhy does everything has to be about gestures nowadays? And when some people do the "wrong" thing (as opinionated by someone on Twitter) it's always utter catastrophe.
I suppose I should be replying to the tweet instead of posting about it here..
Why would a Nobel get awarded to an unproven treatment?
We know about early side-effects, and every vaccine has been stopped temporarily. OSHA has been forbidden by the Biden administration from reporting employer reports of problems.
I'm interested in finding out what happens to women's reproduction systems after corona and vaccines. There are published papers confirming there's an impact, but not enough time has passed to quantify it.
> Having read a premature obituary which condemned him for profiting from the sales of arms, [Alfred Nobel] bequeathed his fortune to the Nobel Prize institution.
Makes sense.
"I'll only get the darn shot if it receives a Nobel Prize!"