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Annals of McCain - Palin, XX: they are no prize for Nobelists

Posted on October 07, 2008

It's Nobel Prize time, and once again I didn't get the call. In fairness to the Nobel Committee, I didn't deserve it either, but since Henry Kissinger got a Nobel Prize he didn't deserve, I don't know why this should have been a barrier. I could use the money and the fame wouldn't hurt. Anyway, this year the Medicine prizes went to French virologists and a German virologist, for pioneering work on HIV and papilloma virus. What's this got to do with John McCain? None can vote, since all three are Europeans, another sign of waning US influence in science. More importantly, Nobel Laureates seem ...

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