Maduro insults Nobel laureate Machado

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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, at an Oct. 12 public event, called Nobel Peace laureate María Corina Machado a "demonic witch" and urged opponents to "prepare to win" peace.

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Dr. Dale E. Miller

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This could be read as implying that the Prize winners have inflated findings and/or blocked others' research. Maybe they have---I don't know---but maybe they also do the hard work, day in and day out, albeit sometimes with more resources than most.