[eliben]

The underlying issue here is that the Nobel Peace Prize is a useless, politicized joke. It appears to be almost designed to give newspapers something to write about.

It's a shame it gets tied with scientific prizes which represent actual merit.

[jamincan]

You mean like the 1949 Nobel Prize for Medicine being awarded to the person who developed lobotomy surgery?

[IAmBroom]

An imperfect record doesn't mean the whole process is a sham.

But with the Peace Prize, the failures are numerous, and it becomes harder to claim they are outliers.

[morgoo]

Now you need to look into the "Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel" - Economics wasn't part of Nobel's original endowment so the Swedish Central bank funded it in the 60s.

[IAmBroom]

No "Nobel Prize" thread is complete without this pedantic observation, however otherwise off-topic.

[nephihaha]

It's been politicised forever. Even was during the Cold War. There have been some laughable official choices.

[istjohn]

E.g., Henry Kissinger

[nephihaha]

Kissinger is a horrific one considering some of the things he was behind, and things he said. But he was well in with the right people internationally.