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My respect for Nobel prizes ceased when they awarded the peace prize to Obama for simply having won an election. Nothing against Obama, but it revealed how meaningless and political Nobel prizes are.

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Henry Kissinger getting the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 was kind of sufficient already.

The peace prize has almost always been very bad. The ones you should take seriously are the ones in various sciences.

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