Science
Dust off the crystal ball: It’s time for STAT’s 2020 Nobel Prize predictions – STAT
Focusing on science’s greatest hits to forecast the Nobel winners is too simplistic. The smart money looks for other criteria.
The mistake Nobel Prize prognosticators yours truly included make is to look through the greatest hits of biochemistry, biology, and medicine (the areas STAT covers) nuclear hormone receptors! microRNAs! and figure (as last years prediction story did) one of those is due and deserving. The trouble is, as MITs Phillip Sharp, who shared the 1993 medicine Nobel, told me, There is just a lot of good science that will never get recognized.
So focusing on the greatest hits to forecast the science win…
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