26 September 2010 | Draft
No Bull Prize Nominations
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This is a contribution to efforts to put the No Bull Prize Award on an appropriate footing in global society
in contrast to the Nobel Prize and the Ig Nobel Prize
No Bull Prize for Agriculture
No Bull Prize for Anarchism
No Bull Prize for Business
No Bull Prize for Care
No Bull Prize for Chemistry
No Bull Prize for Crisis Anticipation
No Bull Prize for Development
- Dambisa Moyo, notably for Dead Aid: why aid is not working and how there is a better way for Africa (2009) and for How the West Was Lost: fifty years of economic folly - and the stark choices that lie ahead (2011)
No Bull Prize for Economics
No Bull Prize for Education
No Bull Prize for Environment
No Bull Prize for Euthanasia
No Bull Prize for Finance
No Bull Prize for Food
No Bull Prize for Genetic Engineering
No Bull Prize for Governance
- Tony Blair, for rendering invisible the bull justifying the invasion of Iraq
No Bull Prize for Health Care
No Bull Prize for Humour
No Bull Prize for Information
No Bull Prize for Intelligence
No Bull Prize for Journalism
No Bull Prize for Literature
No Bull Prize for Marketing
No Bull Prize for Mathematics
- Grigori Perelman, for his avoidance of conventional rewards and recognition in the advancement of knowledge
No Bull Prize for Mechanized Agriculture
- ??? for ensuring the systematic replacement of any bull by machinery
No Bull Prize for Medicine
No Bull Prize for Morality
No Bull Prize for Music
No Bull Peace Prize
No Bull Prize for Philosophy
- Paul Feyerabend, notably for Against Method: outline of an anarchistic theory of knowledge (1975) and for Conquest of Abundance: a tale of abstraction versus the richness of being (1999)
- Nicholas Rescher, notably for The Strife of Systems: an essay on the grounds and implications of philosophical diversity (1988) and for Pluralism: against the demand for consensus (1993).
No Bull Prize for Physics
No Bull Prize for Planning
- Donald N. Michael, notably for his "requirement to embrace error", articulated in On Learning to Plan and Planning to Learn (1973) and for The Unprepared Society (1968)
No Bull Prize for Politics
No Bull Prize for Psychotherapy
No Bull Prize for Public Relations
No Bull Prize for Questions
No Bull Prize for Reason
No Bull Prize for Religion
No Bull Prize for Resource Assessment
No Bull Prize for Security
- Xe Services (Blackwater Worldwide), for faithful execution of contractual obligations
- NATO / ISAF, for extreme discernment with regard to Afghan weddings, funerals and suspect turban wearing
No Bull Prize for Sex Work
No Bull Prize for Social Activism
No Bull Prize for Social Responsibility
- Al Qaida, for accepting responsibility for every terrifying threat faced by civilization
- Global Compact, for encouraging businesses worldwide to adopt sustainable and socially responsible policies, and to report on their implementation
No Bull Prize for Spirituality
- Zen Buddhism, for its careful cultivation, through a Ten Bull discipline, of total bull-elimination and transcendence
No Bull Prize for Sport
No Bull Prize for Technology
No Bull Prize for Thinking
- Edward de Bono, notably for New Thinking for the New Millennium (1999), Think! Before It's Too Late (2009) and Po: Beyond Yes and No (1973)
No Bull Prize for Truth Elucidation
No Bull Prize for Weapons Research
- The Pentagon, for dedication to development of means of destroying all bulls everywhere
This nomination process is dedicated to John E Fobes (1919-2005), former Deputy Director-General of UNESCO and co-founder, with Art Buchwald, of the Association for the Promotion of Humour in International Affairs (APHIA). Their initiative was the inspiration for Humour and Play-Fullness: essential integrative processes in governance, religion and transdisciplinarity (2005). The process is consistent with the recommendations of Liberating Provocations: use of negative and paradoxical strategies (2005) and Transformation of Global Governance through Bullfighting (2009). It is appropriate to note that the No Bull Prize is reported to have been one of the synonyms of the Journal of Irreproducible Results. The organization Improbable Research publishes a magazine entitled the Annals of Improbable Research, and administers the Ig Nobel Prizes -- focusing on research that makes people laugh and then think.