Nobel Prize for Medicine

Nobel Prize for Medicine  (Nobel prize)
Start	10 December 1901

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden "for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine".

The Prize is used to cement dogma that benefits Big Pharma, or for political reasons.

2008: "We hope this will put an end to conspiracy theories"

In 2008, half the Prize was given to France's Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier, who discovered the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS.

A member of the jury, Björn Vennström, said he hoped the award would silence those who claim that HIV does not cause AIDS. "We hope this will put an end to conspiracy theories and others who defend ideas that are not founded in research."

The other half was given to Harald zur Hausen of Germany for claiming that a virus, the human papilloma virus (HPV), causes cervical cancer. Giving the prize to zur Hausen might have part of the continuous heavy marketing of cervical cancer vaccines by AstraZeneca, an ineffective product tied to significant health problems. Several people who involved in the decision-making process for handing out the Prize were also on AstraZeneca's payroll.

2023:"May help sway the opinion of some anti-vaxxers"

In October 2023, the prize was given to Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman "for work on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology that paved the way for groundbreaking COVID-19 vaccines". Nobel Committee member Olle Kampe said the prize may help sway the opinion of some anti-vaxxers. It "may make hesitant people take the vaccine and be sure that it's very efficient and safe".

In 2014, Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital signed a "strategic collaboration" with Moderna. Stéphane Bancel said at the time "Under the terms of the partnership, Moderna will sponsor research grants for scientists at both institutions to conduct preclinical research with novel mRNA Therapeutics™.

Censorship meeting

In May 2023, the Nobel Foundation and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences host a "Nobel Prize Summit on Countering Misinformation and Building Trust in Science". The summit will get together Nobel Prize laureates and other "experts", who will be joined by selected information technology and business leaders, policymakers, journalists, educators, and youth.

The mission is explore solutions to "actively combat" the spread of "misinformation" and "disinformation", with the pretext "as the world faces interconnecting crises such as the pandemic, war, and climate change, the volume, velocity, and reach of misinformation and disinformation are weakening public deliberation and undermining trust in science and in democracy itself."

"No sector of society is untouched by the problem of misinformation," said Vidar Helgesen, executive director of the Nobel Foundation. “We need to mobilize across society to counter it and build trust and respect for all those diligently seeking truth with integrity. We can’t limit the search for solutions to scientists, policymakers, or civil society — we need everyone to get on board."

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