• over_clox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    2 months ago

    People will stick anything up their ass these days, and these guys get the fucking Nobel Prize?!

    I feel betrayed ☹️

    • hsdkfr734r@feddit.nlEnglish
      58·
      2 months ago

      the fucking Nobel Prize?!

      No, the Ig Nobel Prize:

      The Ig Nobel Prize monetary award is given in a solitary banknote for the amount of 100 trillion Zimbabwean dollars ($0.40 USD)

        • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
          13·
          2 months ago

          It is a prize for serious science, just serious science that also happens to be funny

      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        i’m a bit disappointed that it’s not like 10 bucks at least, like haha funny yes, but come on you can give them an actual reward for actual science

        • hsdkfr734r@feddit.nlEnglish
          5·
          2 months ago

          The actual worth of the prize could be the publicity, to stand out and be recognizer as a scientist in a flood of publications. I’m just guessing.