as in Special Education. Three of my favorites are:
| Psychology Prize - Evelyne Debey, Maarten De Schryver, Gordon Logan, Kristina Suchotzki and Bruno Verschuere, for asking a thousand liars how often they lie, and for deciding whether to believe those answers. |
| Medicine Prize - Christoph Helmchen, Carina Palzer, Thomas Münte, Silke Anders and Andreas Sprenger, for discovering that if you have an itch on the left side of your body, you can relieve it by looking into a mirror and scratching the right side of your body (and vice versa). |
| Peace Prize [Canada, US] - Gordon Pennycook, James Allan Cheyne, Nathaniel Barr, Derek Koehler and Jonathan Fugelsang for their scholarly study called On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit. |
I mean, think how much better our Federal Government could be if scientists really did discover a bullshit detector. Alas...
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