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annoyed

Nobel-Prize Winning Wank!
No, literally. Wank over the Nobel Prize.

So this year the Nobel Prize for medicine went to Paul Lauterbur and Sir Peter Mansfield, two Important Science Guys, for the development of MRI scanning.

Raymond Damadian, who is the self-proclaimed inventor of this method, wasn't particularly happy about that. So unhappy, in fact, that he paid $300,000 to put full-page ads in the NY times, Washington Post, and a major Swedish newspaper.

Text of the ad in the NY times

I expect that I am sufficiently resistant to the mortal slings of a prize process that has allowed itself to be dominated by individuals who, regrettable as it is to acknowledge, are ethically and intellectually corrupt. I cannot, however, sit by and permit the illegitimate celebration of a disgrace to my invention and its distinguished history

Various people discuss.

The difference between theory and practical use is discussed. The word plagiarism is invoked.

But wait! It's really all just because Damadian is a Christian.

Or, depending on who you talk to, it might be them 'ZIONIST COMMITTEE MEMBERS'

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	smo 2003-11-25 07:56 pm UTC (link)
	Can we make a law about invoking Zionists and/or Zionism? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	calluna 2003-11-25 08:45 pm UTC (link)
	Or how about one about claiming to be an oppressed member of a majority religion? :p (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	jfpbookworm 2003-11-25 08:55 pm UTC (link)
	I think that's a corollary of Horowitz's Law. (Reply to this)(Parent)

terminal_frost
2003-11-25 09:28 pm UTC (link)

"I can't escape the fact that I started it all. … My concern is the distortion by the Nobel Committee to write me out of the history of the MRI. Every history book from now on will say the MRI is Lauterbur and Mansfield. I know that had I never been born, there would be no MRI today."

Translation: "It's all about me."

That's one massive ~~willy~~ ego. How does he ever manage to get through the doorways?

No wonder he got snubbed.

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	minibalrogmum 2003-11-26 09:29 am UTC (link)
	Zionist committee members? Of the SWEDISH Nobel Committee? I must have missed that memo. Also, this: Scandinavia is famous as drug paradise by official figures? Why hasn't anyone told me? I'm Scandinavian, where is my drug paradise? I feel cheated. Cheated! shakes head The wank, it kills. (Reply to this)

	rann 2003-11-26 10:42 am UTC (link)
	Guys, the Nobel committee are the guys that let keep Yassir Arafat keep his Peace Prize. Everything they touch, or even don't touch but people feel they should have, springs up with great gardens of wank. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	necronomist 2003-11-26 08:09 pm UTC (link)
	Don't forget Henry Kissinger. Never figured how carpet bombing Cambodia = Peace Prize, but who knows? Oh, Alfred Nobel, all you ever wanted was not to be known as a merchant of death. Now you are the progenitor of wank. (Reply to this)(Parent)