Nobel Prize in Economics is for apes throwing their own feces

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Nobel Prize in Economics is for apes throwing their own feces

By cvining Mon, 10/23/2006 - 12:20

Stephen Colbert: “Do they give a Noble Prize for throwing your own feces?”

Dr. Peter Agre: “That's the Economics prize.”

- Oct. 19, 2006 episode of the Colbert Report

Note: Doctor Peter Agre won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and offered to trade it (his Nobel Prize Medal) for two weeks hosting the Colbert Report. Agre is also a member of Scientists and Engineers for America, an activist organization concerned with the role of science in government decision-making.

For more of Colbert's world view see: http://www.wikiality.com/

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