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Trump wins! An Ig Nobel, for Medical Education ... but he has to share.
MEDICAL EDUCATION
Citation: "Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil, Boris Johnson of the United Kingdom, Narendra Modi of India, Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico, Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus, Donald Trump of the USA, Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, Vladimir Putin of Russia, and Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow of Turkmenistan, for using the COVID-19 viral pandemic to teach the world that politicians can have a more immediate effect on life and death than scientists and doctors can."
"The citation tells the story, which is both large and simple," master of ceremonies (and editor of the magazine Annals of Improbable Research) Marc Abraham told Ars about this prize. "Part of what we're doing, always, is trying to make it easy for people to start thinking about, and really discussing factual things. Sometimes a little vagueness makes it easier for them to spark a good discussion." So what do all the aforementioned countries have in common? National leaders who ignored scientific expertise, instituting disastrous policies for dealing with a global pandemic. The result: those countries combined have over 18 million confirmed COVID-19 cases and more than a half-million deaths to date—and counting. (The US alone accounts for nearly 200,000 of those deaths.) "Especially in this case we hope people will discuss the difference a single decision has made and also might still make as things continue to unfold," Abraham added.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/09/bellowing-alligators-and-frozen-poop-knives-the-2020-ig-nobel-prizes/
Citation: "Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil, Boris Johnson of the United Kingdom, Narendra Modi of India, Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico, Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus, Donald Trump of the USA, Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, Vladimir Putin of Russia, and Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow of Turkmenistan, for using the COVID-19 viral pandemic to teach the world that politicians can have a more immediate effect on life and death than scientists and doctors can."
"The citation tells the story, which is both large and simple," master of ceremonies (and editor of the magazine Annals of Improbable Research) Marc Abraham told Ars about this prize. "Part of what we're doing, always, is trying to make it easy for people to start thinking about, and really discussing factual things. Sometimes a little vagueness makes it easier for them to spark a good discussion." So what do all the aforementioned countries have in common? National leaders who ignored scientific expertise, instituting disastrous policies for dealing with a global pandemic. The result: those countries combined have over 18 million confirmed COVID-19 cases and more than a half-million deaths to date—and counting. (The US alone accounts for nearly 200,000 of those deaths.) "Especially in this case we hope people will discuss the difference a single decision has made and also might still make as things continue to unfold," Abraham added.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/09/bellowing-alligators-and-frozen-poop-knives-the-2020-ig-nobel-prizes/
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