Slashdot | Nobel Jurors Facing Bribery Probe

Slashdot | Nobel Jurors Facing Bribery Probe
We all make mistakes, and past errors are not indicators of future malfeasance, but I would assume that these sort of things should be publicly responded to by the Nobel people, unless they’re trying to muscle in on the igNoble Prize people.

RockDoctor writes
“A report is circulating that in the run-up to the selection of prize-winners for 2006 and 2008, some members of the Nobel jury accepted an expenses-paid trip or trips to China to explain the selection process. Thats not, in itself, an incriminating event Is there something that were doing incorrectly, or not doing? is a valid question, and if there was dishonorable intent, it doesnt seem to have worked too well the last Chinese Nobel Laureate was in 1957. There does seem to be embarrassment about falling into an obvious conflict-of-interest mantrap.”

PhysOrg mentions that a corruption prosecutor is also looking into a Nobel-related sponsorship from a pharmaceutical company that was linked to one of the winners for this years Medicine prize.

See also Nobel jurors face bribery probe for China trips - Yahoo! News and Nobel prize committees accused of bribery