i'm getting sick and tired of all of these prizes and awards, they are nothing more than political bullshit in one way or another. in this case it's just the politics of wealth redistribution through the use of scare tactics. al is just another idiot trying to prolong his fifteen minutes of fame and it seems to be working. the poor boy is just too stupid to understand that he's just being used in this transparent game and he is reveling in the childish notion that he might be taken seriously by the international scientific community. i can just imagine the infantile glee with which he proudly proclaims, "gee, now i be a real scientist".