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Re:Scientists Sue FCC for Ignoring Cell Phone Radiation Risk by duskwuff on Thursday February 06, 2020 @01:36PM (#22258802)
It's outright misleading. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which was a co-recipient of the 2007 Peace Prize, has specifically stated that the the prize "was awarded to the IPCC as an organization, and not to any individual associated with the IPCC", and that "it is incorrect to refer to any IPCC official, or scientist who worked on IPCC reports, as a Nobel laureate or Nobel Prize winner". For a member of the IPCC to describe themselves as a "Nobel co-laureate" or "a Nobel Prize-winning scientist" borders on fraudulent misrepresentation.

-- https://web.archive.org/web/20150525014000/http://www.ipcc.c...

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Re:Scientists Sue FCC for Ignoring Cell Phone Radiation Risk by garmaine on Thursday February 06, 2020 @01:52PM (#22258988)
Wouldn’t the Nobel committee be the one to decide on that?
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Re:Scientists Sue FCC for Ignoring Cell Phone Radiation Risk by duskwuff on Thursday February 06, 2020 @02:03PM (#22259122)
The Nobel Committee has never awarded a prize to more than three recipients. It would have been highly irregular for the committee to award a prize jointly to a panel of hundreds of scientists.
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Re:Scientists Sue FCC for Ignoring Cell Phone Radiation Risk by garmaine on Friday February 07, 2020 @12:59PM (#22268752)
That’s missing the point. What does it mean to award a prize to a committee of scientists? Only the Nobel Committee can say because they awarded it.
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