🌀 Misinformation Radar: ❓ "500 million Arabs don't produce science, don't win the Nobel, Fields…

🌀 Misinformation Radar
❓ "500 million Arabs don't produce science, don't win the Nobel, Fields or Wolf prizes, don't produce literature." True?
⚠️ Verdict: FALSE
Said by US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a Michigan campaign rally on 26 Oct. The record says otherwise:
🏅 Nobel: Naguib Mahfouz (Literature 1988), Ahmed Zewail (Chemistry 1999), Tawakkol Karman (Peace 2011), Saudi citizen Omar Yaghi (Chemistry 2025).
🏅 Wolf: Omar Yaghi (Chemistry 2018), Lebanese-American Elias J. Corey (Chemistry 1986).
🏅 Fields: Michael Atiyah, son of a Lebanese father (1966).
🔬 Saudi Arabia ranks 29th worldwide in the 2025 Nature Index of research output.
🌍 Spread in 🇬🇧 English (most), 🇸🇦 Arabic and 🇹🇷 Turkish.
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