Some simple, descriptive and revealing statistics on the Nobel Prize

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  Richard Rasker on Monday 13 October 2025 at 11:35

  I used the Nobel Prize argument with moderate success when working with people who claimed to suffer from Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS):

  “If I can conclusively demonstrate that you are indeed capable of sensing electromagnetic fields from Wi-Fi, smartphones, cell phone towers and other similar sources, then this would be a major scientific breakthrough, perhaps even Nobel Prize material. And I’ll be sure to share any scientific and material success with you – so let’s get going with our measurements!”

  So far, I have not found anyone who can actually sense electromagnetic fields – except of course the ones we can all sense, i.e. infrared (heat) and visible light.

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  RPGNo1 on Monday 13 October 2025 at 12:11

  DUllman is surely already champing at the bit to explain in an aggressive, lamenting tone that homeopaths ABSOLUTELY deserve a Nobel Prize and that only the arrogant mainstream medical establishment is preventing them from receiving this honor.

  😀 😀 😀

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  Talker on Monday 13 October 2025 at 17:00

  I think it is worth noting (if you have the date) how many of those Nobel laureates from US are first generation immigrants.

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    Edzard on Monday 13 October 2025 at 17:04

    good point!
    The number of US Nobel laureates who are first-generation immigrants is 115 to 148, depending on the criteria and cutoff year used by various reports.

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      Talker on Monday 13 October 2025 at 23:10

      @Professor

      Thank you for that statistic. Roughly, a third of US Nobel laureates were born outside US. It is a testament of how US massively benefited from immigration, not to mention millions of first-generation immigrants (including myself) past and present who work(ed) in various industries that drive US economy. Many of them are now being systematically stripped of their rights, harassed, kidnapped, thrown in jail and often thrown out of the country without due process.

      That said, after living in this country for 24 years I have decided to leave. I am immigrating to your homeland of Germany in a couple of weeks.

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        Edzard on Tuesday 14 October 2025 at 06:41

        I understand your decision – in faact, I would probably have left even before.
        THE BEST OF LUCK TO YOU.

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          Talker on Tuesday 14 October 2025 at 16:26

          Thank you.
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  GibleyGibley on Wednesday 15 October 2025 at 23:28

  Prof. Ernst. You forgot to include in your list of providers the following professions. Dentists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and podiatrists, just to name a few. No one in these professions has won a Nobel Prize either. For the sake of completeness, you should have included the budgets available for all these professions to do the research. I suppose you forgot to do this.

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    Edzard on Thursday 16 October 2025 at 06:54

    1) are dentists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and podiatrists SCAM practitioners, in your view?
    2) research budgets are open to all healthcare frofessionals, even homeopaths, acupuncturists etc.

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  GibleyGibley on Thursday 16 October 2025 at 22:07

  Prof. Ernst. Recent research into acupuncture. I am surprised (not) that you did not include it in your recent criticism.

  https://journals.lww.com/md-journal/fulltext/2025/05020/economic_impact_of_acupuncture_for_the_prevention.20.aspx

  If you read your written article carefully, you will see that you wrote, “Here is a list of Nobel prizes in Physiology/Medicine by healthcare professions”:
  My question to you is, “Why did you not include the physiotherapy (especially as they use dry-needling in their supposed care), dentistry, podiatry and occupational therapy. You could also include audiology in your list of healthcare professions that have never won a Nobel Prize.
  I am just pointing out to you that your article is incomplete and bias, because using your logic you could say that these professions are SCAMS because they have not won a Nobel Prize.

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    Edzard on Friday 17 October 2025 at 10:10

    I do apologise – I had assumed you were bright enough to read the full and short paragraph which should make it clear:
    Since this blog is about so-called alternative medicine (SCAM), let’s also see what the contribution of SCAM has been. Here is a list of Nobel prizes in Physiology/Medicine by healthcare professions:

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