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Is It Ig Nobler for Science to Suffer the Slings & Arrows of Outrageous Foolery?
Andrew A. Skolnick
JAMA. 1998;279:979-981.
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Twas the saying of an ancient sage, . . . that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor. For a subject which would not bear raillery was suspicious; and a jest which would not bear a serious examination was certainly false wit.—Anthony Cooper, Earle of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)
SHOULD SCIENCE always be taken seriously? That question is at the heart of a debate that has been smoldering ever since the United Kingdom's top science adviser, Sir Robert May, warned of the risk of poking fun at scientists without their consent (Nature. 1996;383:291). What provoked his outcry may have been the propensity of scientists in the United Kingdom to win more than their share of Ig Nobel Prizes.
Called the world's most "(un)coveted award for achievements that cannot or should not be reproduced," the Ig Nobel Prizes are bestowed at Harvard University in . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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