tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518007.post873733416602620028..comments2024-02-09T14:11:55.826-08:00Comments on Whatever It Is, I’m Against It: Today -100: January 26, 1920: It is always well for men to walk humblyWIIIAIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17267949487358907637noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518007.post-36365469049981457532020-01-26T15:25:48.456-08:002020-01-26T15:25:48.456-08:00This is true, though Zyklon A was a pesticide. Hab...This is true, though Zyklon A was a pesticide. Haber was a Jew, by the way.WIIIAIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17267949487358907637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518007.post-81464705631705037482020-01-26T14:31:16.659-08:002020-01-26T14:31:16.659-08:00in re: "chemical weapons"
My understand...in re: "chemical weapons"<br /><br />My understanding is, Haber process and product was duly noted but not appreciated by Churchill in WWI trenches; and were rebranded Zyklon for gas chamber service in WWII.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518007.post-27371160992136863502020-01-26T05:47:57.107-08:002020-01-26T05:47:57.107-08:00No bang for the bucks as it were.No bang for the bucks as it were.David Chappellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518007.post-22745593125047501232020-01-26T02:26:09.471-08:002020-01-26T02:26:09.471-08:00If by kosher you mean there isn't dynamite mon...If by kosher you mean there isn't dynamite money behind it, you're right. It wasn't funded by Alfred Nobel but is awarded by the Nobel Foundation.WIIIAIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17267949487358907637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518007.post-12612273675317006102020-01-26T02:16:45.017-08:002020-01-26T02:16:45.017-08:00I guess the NYT didn't expect anyone to be fac...I guess the NYT didn't expect anyone to be fact-checking them 100 years later. And IIRC, the economics prize is not actually a kosher Nobel Prize.David Chappellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518007.post-85535392339871919922020-01-26T01:55:54.788-08:002020-01-26T01:55:54.788-08:00Also, the prize in medicine was actually awarded, ...Also, the prize in medicine was actually awarded, and not to a Frenchman. Clearly this is yet another issue of the New York Times that has somehow arrived here from an alternative universe which is different from ours in subtle but uninteresting ways.WIIIAIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17267949487358907637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518007.post-78222513637911830032020-01-26T00:33:29.432-08:002020-01-26T00:33:29.432-08:00And also because the Nobel Prize in economics woul...And also because the Nobel Prize in economics wouldn’t be established until 1968.Mary Gracehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05023802865826225196noreply@blogger.com