Word: ig
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...point of all this craziness? If not to see dignified scientists make complete fools of themselves, it must be to reveal the true world of science and academics to an unsuspecting public, said John A. Barrett, official Ig Nobel referee and an administrative assistant in the physics department...
Only about two percent of the nominees each year actually win Ig Nobel Prizes, according to Marc A. Abrahams '78, who accepts the nominations year-round...
...those, only the names of the most promising nominees are submitted to the Ig Nobel Board of Governors, whose members range from Nobel laureates to people right off the street...
...Ig Nobel Awards certainly don't recognize the same type of "excellence" in research as the real Nobel prizes, but are the Ig Nobel awardees actually doing good work...
Consider the case of Dr. Robert A. Lopez, a veterinarian from Westport, N.Y., who won the Ig Nobel in entomology for putting ear mites from cats into his own ears. What reason could a veterinarian have for experimenting on himself...