--- In [email protected], "hugheshugo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <LEnglish5@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "hugheshugo" > <richardhughes103@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <LEnglish5@> > wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "hugheshugo" > > > <richardhughes103@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > (Hugheshugo, I suspect, is simply misinformed.) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Do you ever wonder why people don't like you? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I can find all sorts of quotes on all sorts of websites. > However, > > > the website CURRENTLY > > > > says: > > > > > > > > http://www.improb.com/ig/ > > > > > > > > The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that first make people > > > laugh, and then make them > > > > think. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor > the > > > imaginative -- and spur > > > > people's interest in science, medicine, and technology. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Are you implying that I didn't get that quote from the organisers > of > > > the Igs? It's the one they have always used, but it isn't on the > > > front page anymore. > > > > > > > > > > > Did you ever read what Hagelin and company said in response to > > > Park's remarks? > > > > > > > > > Yes. > > > > > > > > > > Science is all about discussion to discover the truth. When you > > > stop looking after finding > > > > something you agree with, you're no longer part of the > scientific > > > debate. > > > > > > > > Lawson > > > > > > > > > > I like that quote, I shall use that in future, but Sparaig it's > not > > > just the one critic. I've been reading about this for years, I > used > > > to work for the TMO, I've done WPA's I have honestly honestly > thought > > > about it more than just reading a few websites. Do I come over as > a > > > blinkered bigot? > > > > > > > Well, yes. When you quote something that the website doesn't say > any more as though it > > does in order to support your argument... > > > > > > Lawson > > > > But it does still say it on there somewhere! I went there to check I > was right, it's part of their tagline, it's what they always say, > that's why me and Vaj posted it at the same time. Jesus. >
It is a quoate from teh editor of the magaizine and creator of the award. Here is a more complete quote: http://www.cascadiacon.org/Marc.htm Marc Abrahams is known for a number of things (most of them not worthy of arrestâ¦), but probably the two best-known things he has created are the Ig Nobel Prizes and his magazine, The Annals of Improbable Research. The Ig Nobel Prizes grow out of Marcâs belief that research ought to be recognized for being differentâ"not just good. He says of the Ig Nobel Prizes, âEach year, ten Ig Nobel Prizes are awarded. The selection criterion is simple: the prizes are for âachievements that cannot or should not be reproduced.â Examine that phrase carefullyâ"it covers a lot of ground. It says nothing about whether a thing is good or bad, commendable or pernicious. I raise this matter of good or bad, because the world in general seems to enjoy classifying things as being either one or the other. The Ig Nobel Prizes aside, most prizes, in most places, for most purposes, are clearly designed to sanctify the goodness or badness of the recipients. Every year, of the ten new Ig Nobel Prizes, about half are awarded for things that most people would say are commendable, if perhaps goofy. The other half go for things that are, in some people's eyes, less commendable. All such judgments are entirely up to each observer. This makes the Prizes potentially useful in a very nice, and very powerful, way.â
