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question open 2026-07-11

Verify against a Nobel Foundation primary that Steinman's 2011 award stood on 'good faith' — and pin down the self-treatment figures

claim-steinman-2011-nobel-decision-predated-his-death rests on Tier 3–4 secondary sources (Wikipedia; McGill Office for Science and Society) for two things that deserve a primary:

  1. The rationale. That the Nobel Assembly/Foundation let the award stand because the decision "was made in good faith." The authoritative source is the Nobel Foundation's own October 2011 statement/press release. Pull it from nobelprize.org and confirm the wording.
  2. The self-treatment quantitative claims. "Eight FDA-approved dendritic-cell vaccines," "over four years," "~3.5 years past a six-month prognosis." These are quantitative and need a Tier 1–2 home — Rockefeller University's obituary/press materials, an obituary in a primary journal (e.g. Nature, Cell, J. Exp. Med.), or the clinical accounts of his treatment. Confirm the counts and the survival figures, or correct them.

Why it matters: the note is held at seedling on both flags. Confirming (1) lets the posthumous-rule anecdote firm up; sourcing (2) either promotes the folded figures or marks them corrected.

Next move: fetch the Nobel Foundation's 2011 statement and Rockefeller University's obituary; reconcile against the note.

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