Nobel joke to political leaders for showing that they influence life and death more than doctors

By 17/09/2020 Portal

Every year, the most mischievous spirit of science is celebrated at the Sanders Theater at Harvard University: the Ig Nobel Prizes, the parody of the Swedish Academy awards. A ceremony that recognizes the funniest or most peculiar studies in world science, in which Spain receives many more awards than in the real Nobel Prizes. The current edition of the awards, the 30th, was not held at the Sanders, but by videoconference, for an obvious reason: the covid pandemic. A pandemic that is very present in the honors of these awards, which always kick the shins of the powerful, like when they gave the Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Volkswagen “to solve the problem of excess automobile emissions” by modifying their vehicles.

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