https://www.isegoria.net/2011/05/antibiotics-and-sugar/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:34:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 https://www.isegoria.net/2011/05/antibiotics-and-sugar/comment-page-1/#comment-210001 Isegoria Mon, 16 May 2011 19:01:18 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=24945#comment-210001 Calling something a “genius” award is just asking for trouble, really.

]]> https://www.isegoria.net/2011/05/antibiotics-and-sugar/comment-page-1/#comment-208088 Bruce Charlton Sun, 15 May 2011 06:03:52 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=24945#comment-208088 A while ago, when I was researching Nobel Prizes and the like, I checked out the recipients of the MacArthur “genius” awards, and while some smart and creative people deservedly get them — evolutionary theorist Margie Prophet, for example, who seems to have become psychotic, disappeared and probably died in the past few years — it is obvious from the demography that the awards are mostly given not for genius potential but instead for symbolic and politically correct reasons: the representation of PC-favoured groups and behaviours is way too high. Which is probably why hardly anybody has heard of MacArthur awards, and why they are so stunningly unsuccessful in achieving their aims.

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