Campaign to Fight Nobel’s Whitewash

CAMPAIGN TO FIGHT NOBEL’S WHITEWASH

Let them know that their terrible mistake cannot be forgotten

UPDATE: Nobel Responds!

The day after our article ran in the LA Times, Nobel suddenly sent an email stating that they were formulating a response to our email campaign. It took over six weeks, but they finally did actually respond. To see Psychosurgery.org’s letter to Nobel and their response, click here.

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The Nobel Prize Committee would like to whitewash their terrible error in awarding Egas Moniz half of the Nobel Prize for the prefrontal leucotomy in 1949. In an article they have on their website about the “controversy” regarding Moniz’s win, they have the gall to say:

“However, I see no reason for indignation at what was done in the 1940s as at that time there were no other alternatives!” http://www.nobel.se/medicine/articles/moniz/index.html

Perhaps the Nobel people would see it differently if it had been their loved one whose brain was under the knife.

The Nobel Committee has never taken responsibility for the fact that they awarded a prize for an operation that was a total failure and without any scientific merit. In the United States alone lobotomy, leucotomy, and related operations resulted in at least 50,000 surgical casualties. Through the Committee’s actions, they endorsed this brutal operation and provided justification for thousands of more operations.

Psychosurgery.org has made our complaints to the Nobel Prize Committee known, but so far they have not even bothered to answer us. Please help us put some pressure on them! Email the Nobel Prize Committee at comments@nobel.se and tell them that their article about Moniz’s prize is unacceptable. Let them know it’s high time they apologized to the victims of psychosurgery and took responsibility for their grave error.

We have tried to tell them that it’s not so easy to be cavalier about lobotomy and leucotomy when it has affected someone you love. They won’t listen to us alone, but maybe they will if you help!

If you do email them, please copy Christine@pscyhosurgery.org.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!