Guest Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 How the Nobel Prizes skew science WWW.VOX.COM A biologist critiques one of the highest honors in science and proposes a new way to reward humanity’s biggest discoveries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 I'm definitely going to read this later as this is something that I've honestly wondered about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 I have definitely heard that the Nobel favours "fast individuals." In other words, you want to be the first to publish something, and you want a singular (or a few names at most) attached. There could be hundreds of people working on a problem, but one middle-manager scientist up the chain is going to get the credit for all the work done by lab students, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 17 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: I'm definitely going to read this later as this is something that I've honestly wondered about. Definitely read the Slate article linked in the story too http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2017/10/the_nobel_prize_does_science_a_serious_disservice.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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