Leaves a dull taste to hear that a once prestigious prices has lost all of it's meaning. When people like Obama [1] win a Nobel Prize and Putin [1] get's suggested for another.
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Don't let me get started with the "Nobel memorial price" that banksters created.
But Nobel prices in science had always been and continue being prestigious.
Also, it's just a (prestigious) prize. Keep doing science, don't think about it. And for god's sake, don't come up with science policies that 'will make our country win more Nobel prizes'.
[1] http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2008-02-29/why-im-fed-up...
'More Nobel prizes to our country' is therefore hard to accomplish by politicians (and sounds populistic). Instead of using the Nobel prize as a rhetorical tool, politicians would probably do better to foster good science in general. Keep universities healthy, leave the policy making to scientists instead of pointing out areas that are going to get increased funding. Make sure scientists can investigate whatever they find interesting based on scientific quality of a proposal/track record. Maybe do keep a check on scientific nepotism et al.
Both being a scientist and defining a proper science policy are hard though.
Peace and Economics Nobels are non-scientific and only share the name with the original prices.
The committees presiding over the other awards are completely different from the Peace committee, and the other awards still carry an enormous amount of merit, and if you're a biologist you'll know how important vesicle transport is. However, you probably aren't.
Don't pick at strawmen and use your arguments somewhere else.