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Two judges on the panel that awards the Nobel prize for medicine have been asked to resign:
Two judges have been asked to leave a panel that picks the Nobel prize for medicine in a scandal surrounding a disgraced Italian transplant surgeon. The decision to drop Harriet Wallberg and Anders Hamsten came after the Swedish government sacked the entire board of the prestigious Karolinska Institute, where the scientist worked.
Paolo Macchiarini was seen as a leading specialist on windpipe transplants. But two of his patients died and he was accused of falsifying his work record. Dr Macchiarini denies all the charges against him.
The two judges who lost their positions on the Nobel panel have both served as heads of the Karolinska Institute, and were among several individuals suspected of ignoring warnings about the Italian windpipe scientist.
Also at Reuters.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 07 2016, @01:53AM
Probably because the Dr. is a white, christian, cis heterosexual male Italian, isn't it? Dog windpipes just hanging out there, he was probably not afraid to speak out. But now the SJWs have gotten to him. Soon, all will be gone, and there will be none to pipe wind for us.