Goldenes Brett

The award Das Goldene Brett vorm Kopf (Engslish translation: “The Golden Board in front of the head" or, in short "The Golden Board", in English "Skeptic Award") is a negative prize awarded by the Society for the Scientific Investigation of Parasciences (GWUP - Gesellschaft zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung von Parawissenschaften). The prize is organised by the Viennese regional group, the Society for Critical Thinking (GkD - Gesellschaft für kritisches Denken). The jury considers the "most astonishing pseudo-scientific nuisance" of the year in German-speaking countries. The award was presented for the first time in 2011 during the Sceptics Conference in Vienna.[1][2] In 2016, the prize was presented simultaneously for the first time in Vienna and Hamburg (by the Hamburg sceptics of the GWUP).[3]

Process

Candidates get nominated via form. A jury of experts selects three top candidates among the nominees. The assessment is based on the following: degree of deviance, resistance to criticism, commercial interest, radius of action, pseudoscience, and hazard potential.[4] In the course of a public award ceremony, these three candidates are presented by an eulogist in an ironic speech. The three candidates can comment on their nomination. Thereafter the winner is announced, who is given a golden statue with a board in front of the head and gets the option of holding an acceptance speech. In 2012, the jury of experts included Heinz Oberhummer (physicist), Werner Gruber (physicist), Johannes Grenzfurthner (artist) and the eulogists Mario Sixtus (journalist), El Awadalla (writer) and Niko Alm (entrepreneur and activist).

In 2012, an additional “lifetime achievement prize” was awarded for the first time. This prize recognizes a person who, according to the jury, "made a name with particularly impressive resistance to scientific facts over decades." [5] The award was granted in 2012 by the Austrian Consumer Information Consortium (Verein für Konsumenteninformation) and since 2013 by the German Consumers' Union (Deutscher Konsumentenbund). The Austrian branch of the Cochrane Collaboration was a cooperation partner in 2015.[6]

Winners and nominees

Year Lifetime award Winners Nominees/ reason for nomination Sideact
2011 not awarded Peter-Arthur Straubinger
  • not held
2012 Erich von Däniken Harald Walach
  • Dieter Broers (doomsday prophecies)
  • Harald Walach of the Viadrina European University (spreading of esotericsm and alternative medicine in academia)
  • Austrian doctors association (promotion of therapies without proof of therapeutic effect)
2013 Ruediger Dahlke Homeopaths without borders
  • SPAR (revitalized water)
  • Marcus Franz; Austrian politician and doctor (pseudoscientific claims regarding homosexuality)
  • Homeopaths without borders (distribution of homeopathy in areas of medical crisis)
  • Harald Havas
2014 Jochen Kopp/ Kopp Verlag Xavier Naidoo[7][8]
  • Netzwerk Impfentscheid (claims regarding vaccines)
  • Barbara Steffens; health minister of North Rhine-Westphalia (promotion of pseudoscience at public universities)
  • Singer Xavier Naidoo (public spreading of conspiracy theories)
2015[10][11] Matthias Rath[12] Stefan Lanka[12]
2016 Ryke Geerd Hamer Zentrum der Gesundheit
  • Roland Düringer (spreading of conspiracy theories in the public)
  • Ryke Geerd Hamer (Germanic new medicine)
  • Cancer centre Brüggen-Bracht (pseudoscientific claims on cancer therapy/ treatment of cancer patients with unapproved drugs)
 Sideact in Vienna:

Sideact in Hamburg:

  • Armin Himmelrath
  • Marcus Rohwetter
  • Julia Offe

Media recognition

Media recognition ranges from numerous mentions in the blogosphere, such as ScienceBlogs (Astrodicticum Simplex,[13] Kritisch gedacht [14] or Fischblog [15] and Mathlog) [16] to Austrian media such as Der Standard [17][18] Die Presse,[19] ORF,[20] NEWS,[21] Heute [22] and Vice.[23]

References

  1. ↑ orf.at: Wissenschaftlicher Humbug gesucht, 24. September 2012
  2. ↑ derStandard.at: Skeptiker küren Esoterik-Unfug des Jahres, 24. September 2012
  3. ↑ http://www.abendblatt.de/hamburg/article208401199/Pseudowissenschaftler-erhalten-satirischen-Preis.html
  4. ↑ Website goldenesbrett.at - Kriterien und Jury, 16. Oktober 2012
  5. ↑ derStandard.at: Drei Finalisten für "Goldenes Brett vorm Kopf" ... inklusive Ärztekammer, 16. Oktober 2012
  6. ↑ goldenesbrett.guru: Das Goldene Brett 2015, 14. Oktober 2015
  7. ↑ "Xavier Naidoo als Verschwörungstheoretiker geehrt". derStandard.at (in German). 2014-11-26. Retrieved 2014-11-28.
  8. ↑ Michael Vosatka (2014-11-27). "Nicht von dieser Welt". derStandard.at (in German). Retrieved 2014-11-28.
  9. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghtmGT0r7hE
  10. ↑ "Das Goldene Brett 2015: Die drei Finalisten stehen fest". blog.gwup.net (in German). 2015-10-14. Retrieved 2015-10-14.
  11. ↑ "Das Goldene Brett 2015 - die Verleihung". facebook.com (in German). Retrieved 2015-10-14.
  12. 1 2 orf.at - „Goldenes Brett vorm Kopf“ an Virenleugner. Artikel vom 21. Oktober 2015, abgerufen am 22. Oktober 2015.
  13. ↑ "Wer hat das goldene Brett vorm Kopf?". Astrodicticum Simplex.
  14. ↑ "Nachlese zum Goldenen Brett 2012 an Harald Walach und Erich von Däniken". Kritisch gedacht.
  15. ↑ "Wer wird Scharlatan des Jahres? Jetzt auch bei uns". Fischblog.
  16. ↑ "Weg mit den Pillen! Ein Pharma-Lobbyist bekommt das "Goldene Brett".". Mathlog.
  17. ↑ "Lichtnahrungs-Doku zum "herausragendsten Unfug des Jahres" gekürt". derStandard.at.
  18. ↑ "Auszeichnung für "Homöopathen ohne Grenzen"". derStandard.at.
  19. ↑ http://diepresse.com/home/politik/innenpolitik/4843561/Susanne-Winter-fur-Goldenes-Brett-vorm-Kopf-nominiert
  20. ↑ http://wien.orf.at/news/stories/2738165/
  21. ↑ http://www.news.at/a/goldenes-brett-preis-fuer-esoterischen-unsinn
  22. ↑ http://www.heute.at/news/oesterreich/art23655,1222671
  23. ↑ https://www.vice.com/alps/read/nominierungen-goldenes-brett-susanne-winter-234

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