Hun Sen among possible Nobel Prize nominees

14 November 2009
Khmer Intelligence News

There are rumors about three possible but odd Nobel Prize nominees who would be proposed for their very singular achievements or visions.

• Thabo Mbeki, former president of South Africa, nominee for the Nobel Price in Medicine (and Public Health), for his denial of the scientific consensus that Aids was caused by a viral infection and for his belief that the epidemic was attributable instead to a collapse of the immune system due simply to poverty and malnutrition. The Aids policies of the Thabo Mbeki government in the early and mid 2000's were directly responsible for the avoidable deaths of more than a third of a million people in South Africa , according to research by Harvard university.
• Robert Mugabe, president of Zimbabwe , nominee for the Nobel Prize in Physics (and Mathematics) for his denial of the conceptual value of the zero number as shown by the recent inflation rate in Zimbabwe . As a matter of fact, Mugabe couldn't care less about inflation rate whether it be one thousand percent, one million percent, one billion percent or one trillion percent. He therefore implicitly denies any value to the zero number. Whereas the whole scientific community recognizes the importance of the creation of the zero mark, "No single mathematical creation has been more potent for the general on-go of intelligence and power" (George B. Halsted), Mugabe brilliantly revives the Middle Ages view of zero as "a meaningless nothing."
• Hun Sen, prime minister of Cambodia, nominee for the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, for his straightforward denial of the utility of economic and financial statistics. Because all international financial institutions (World Bank, ADB, IMF) have been continuously revising downwards estimates for Cambodia's GDP growth for 2009, from a positive 4 percent to a negative 3 percent, Hun Sen said in a recent speech broadcast nationwide, "Those figures are meaningless and useless; we need not pay any attention to them as long as we have enough to eat every day." Hun Sen's "zero" conception of economics and the systemic corruption of his regime have maintained millions of Cambodians in dire poverty even before Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe .