This sounds like rugby league fans' usual response to Queens awards going to non RL sportsmen:

Jonny Wilkinson - for kicking one drop goal
Bradley Wiggins - for riding a bike up a hill
Jessica Ennis - for doing hop skip and jump
Andy Murray - for finally winning a final against a past it Federer

I'll get more info but there was a study that won both IG and the nobel peace prize 10 years apart.

You could probably put any Queens award to sportspeople on that list and rename the medal "We never asked for this but were told to accept on behalf of our sporting body, who coincidentally were the ones who nominated us"

It'll be a long acronym I admit.

The probability prize is absolute genius.

You don't have to say it. You could actually consider the actual research first, and THEN decide if it appears a waste of time and money. FYI it is all serious research. For example in the case of the cows, you can read [url=http://www.journals.elsevierhealth.com/periodicals/applan/article/S0168-1591(10)00054-7/abstractan abstract here[/url but in short the point of that particular research was