Scratch that. They’ve won Ig Nobel prizes.
The real prizes established by Alfred Nobel’s will are to be presented over the next couple of weeks. However, as has now been traditional for 18 years, the magazine Annals of Improbable Research has just announced its spoof versions.
While the prizes for economics (Iceland’s banks and finance chiefs) and mathematics (Zimbabwe’s bank chief who has printed 100 trillion dollars bank notes) are pure spoofery, the science-related prizes go to researchers who have carried out genuine studies which produced measurable results, but where those findings “cannot, or should not, be reproduced.” This year the scientific winners include:
Meanwhile the peace prize went to a team of scientists who researched whether it is more dangerous to be hit on the head with a full or empty beer bottle (it turns out that either way, you’re probably getting your skull cracked.)
Full details of the award winners and previous recipients are at: http://improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2009
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