Nobel Prize for Medicine
 Nobel Prize for Medicine  (Nobel prize)   | |
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| Start | 10 December 1901 |
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden "for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine".
2008: We hope this will put an end to conspiracy theories
The Prize is used to cement dogma that benefits Big Pharma.
In 2008, half the Prize was given to France's Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier, who discovered the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS. The other half was given to Harald zur Hausen of Germany for claiming that a virus, the human papilloma virus (HPV), causes cervical cancer, the second most common cancer among women.
A member of the jury, Björn Vennström, said he hoped the award would silence those who claim that HIV does not cause AIDS. "We hope this will put an end to conspiracy theories and others who defend ideas that are not founded in research."[1]
