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2006-07-06 Fifth Column

50 Nobel Laureates With Zero Credibility

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Posted by Anonymoose 2006-07-06 11:43|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I read somewhere recently that an intellectual is someone educated in excess of their natural abilities.

Posted by usmc6743 2006-07-06 12:05|| 2006-07-06 12:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Dupes, fools, or traitors. Take your pick. Their arguments are, at best, disingenuous and flawed; at worst, they are blatant lies.

I will write to each signatory who hails from my alma mater. Not that it will do any good right now.

Disgusting.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2006-07-06 12:41|| 2006-07-06 12:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Highly amusing -- a great many of the signatories won prizes for medicine or chemistry, and one for economics. What arrogance to assume that expertise in one field transposes into expertise in all others. The physicists' work at least can be claimed to be marginally related, but as for the rest...

And History has quickly shown how unkind she plans to be to the poor dears -- only six years of glory before the fall. It would be unkind to point and laugh.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-07-06 13:15|| 2006-07-06 13:15|| Front Page Top

#4 I sometimes wonder if they give these things away based on political persuasion matching some kind of pacifist agenda. "Pacifism is honorable, right?" Only if it sticks. President Carter got one of those things, but if he got his way there would be total chaos within a couple generations. How peaceful is that?

Posted by grb 2006-07-06 13:27|| 2006-07-06 13:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Dont forget Arafat - the murdering thug and terrorist - also recevied an Noble peace prize.

Posted by CrazyFool 2006-07-06 13:31|| 2006-07-06 13:31|| Front Page Top

#6 What arrogance to assume that expertise in one field transposes into expertise in all others.

tw, I guess they figured if Chomsky can do it, they can too.

Posted by Swamp Blondie 2006-07-06 13:35|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2006-07-06 13:35|| Front Page Top

#7 These kinds of things bring out the intellectual snob in me, Swamp Blondie. Of course that's what they think, which is what makes the whole exercise so amusing (or annoying, depending on one's inclination) to those of us with a vague idea of our limitations. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2006-07-06 14:03|| 2006-07-06 14:03|| Front Page Top

#8 "North Korea has taken dramatic steps toward reconciliation with South Korea."
Name one.

Posted by Darrell 2006-07-06 15:16|| 2006-07-06 15:16|| Front Page Top

#9 Darrell

Invasion and attempted incorporation in the 50s!

Posted by DarthVader 2006-07-06 15:25|| 2006-07-06 15:25|| Front Page Top

#10 I concede.

Posted by Darrell 2006-07-06 15:57|| 2006-07-06 15:57|| Front Page Top

#11 #1 I always figg'rt they were people who answered a question with another question.

Posted by macofromoc 2006-07-06 17:37|| 2006-07-06 17:37|| Front Page Top

#12 Who was it that said: that's so stupid only an intellectual would believe it?

Posted by Xbalanke 2006-07-06 18:29|| 2006-07-06 18:29|| Front Page Top

#13 "North Korea has taken dramatic steps toward reconciliation with South Korea."
Name one.

Does sending hit teams across the border to kill the South Korean president count? Hmmm...how about blowing up a South Korean commercial airliner full of passengers? Or...killing the South Korean cabinet members visiting another south Asian country? Geez,,,theres got to be something in this list.

Posted by Glavise Gromong7909 2006-07-06 20:21|| 2006-07-06 20:21|| Front Page Top

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