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[-] dhork@lemmy.world 79 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

From: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-health-chief-rfk-jr-faces-widespread-rebuke-over-his-anti-arab-remarks-2026-10-27/

"There's 500 million Arabs in the world, and yet they don't produce science, they don't win the Nobel Prize, they don't win the Fields prize, they don't win ⁠the Wolf Prize, they don't produce literature," the US health chief said.

Arabs have won all those prizes. Peter Hotez, who is a professor at the Baylor College of Medicine and specializes in vaccine development and tropical medicine, said his late colleague, Nobel Prize winner Ahmed Zewail, who was Arab and died in 2016, "would disagree" with the US health chief's comments.

[-] mrmisses@lemmy.world 62 points 9 hours ago
[-] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

Give him some credit. He's a fucking moron, too

[-] Malica@lemmy.zip 15 points 6 hours ago

Worse, he's a Nazi racist, complete with eugenics obsession.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 40 points 9 hours ago

2025 Chemistry Nobel Winner was from Jordan.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Since 2015 we don't hide our racism anymore! I mean of course we say we aren't racist, but every other thing is okay to say.

[-] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

I might use a hard R, but at least I'm not racist ...

/s cause satire isn't real anymore.

[-] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago

Bold of him to being up the Nobel Prize. When his boss hears that term he instantly throws a full-on toddler hissy fit.

[-] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 3 points 9 hours ago

they don't win ⁠the Wolf Prize

Almost sure it's true

[-] ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 hours ago

What the hell is the wolf prize? I never heard of it.

[-] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 3 points 4 hours ago
[-] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago
this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2026
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