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 ::Yes, we do need a balanced article, which means we can't gloss over the fact that he had a previous association with those who awarded the prize. Even if it's not some kind of collusion, there's an inherent bias to giving an international award to someone you've worked with and presumably therefore have developed a friendship, or at least a working relationship, with. That sort of bias would be ridiculed as non-neutral here on Wikipedia if someone that involved was editing an article, so it makes sense to me to mention it in the article as well. Also, whether it's old ground or not, the article discusses the long-standing debate between both sides; I think it's inappropriate to exclude it just because it's old ground. Yes, there are a couple of names we see going up against Wessely's views time and time again...but then again, we also see Simon Wessely's name going up against the more biophysical views time and time again, so that's really a moot point. –   "