Ex-Pfizer scientist wins award for being an ignorant fool
UK’s Skeptic magazine has announced 2021 Ockham Awards. One goes to somebody for doing good stuff. Other recognises worst pseudoscience.
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2020 John Maddox Prize Winners – Anthony Fauci and Salim S. Abdool Karim
John Maddox prize winners for 2020 have been announced. These are the people who faced hostility when they stood for truth and did not bend.
Nobel 2020 – Peace
World Food Programme (WFP) has won the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize this year. A good choice, they have made a differece to millions of people.
Nobel 2020 – Literature
Nobel Literature 2020 – Poet Louise Glück “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”.
Nobel Prize 2020 – Chemistry
2020 #NobelPrize in Chemistry – awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna “for the development of a method for genome editing.”
Nobel Prize 2020 – Physics
This year’s Nobel Physics prize is about the darkest secrets of the universe. half to Penrose, and half jointly to Genzel and Ghez.