@Dianora Nobel prizes are now even reported in Science magazine as being destructive. Yet no one can bring themselves to call for their abolition.
Do you remember those guys who obviously had a screw loose (literally) and yet had that rag Nature rush publishing a paper for them (which I read) so they could get a Nobel Prize for discovering FTL? No one showered them with opprobrium for seeking a Nobel Prize instead of seeking insight into the nature of things.