Word: jauregg
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Some Nobel Prizes have gone to discoveries that turned out to be wrong. The 1926 Nobel Prize in Medicine went to Johannes Fibiger for the discovery that roundworms cause cancer (they don't). A year later, psychiatrist Julius Wagner-Jauregg won for injecting patients with malaria to treat syphilitic dementia (not a good idea). Past laureates have espoused eugenics, opposed public school, joined the Nazi party and claimed that the Sept. 11 attacks were an inside job. But the majority of prizes have reflected sound discoveries (X-rays, quantum physics, penicillin) and respected leaders (Martin Luther King, Albert Einstein, Nelson...
...item "Three Who Should Never Have Won." Medical science is under constant revision. What is state of the art today may not be tomorrow, as new discoveries lead to a revision of our understanding of how things work. The inclusion in your list of psychiatrist Julius Wagner von Jauregg as an unworthy Nobel recipient is incredible. His malaria-fever therapy to treat dementia was used throughout the world for 50 years and helped relieve a lot of suffering. ROBERT A. HARRIS Stockholm...