It has to stop at some point

[GoodTaste]

Fortunato points out that, if the gap continues to grow, prominent scientists could miss out on the award owing to the Nobel Committee’s rule banning posthumous prizes (with the exception of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, a share of which was awarded to physician Ralph Steinman, who had passed away three days before the announcement, unbeknownst to the committee). “It has to stop at some point,” he says, adding that a rethink of the posthumous-awarding ban would allow more people’s work to get the recognition that it deserves.

Source: Nature Scientists are waiting longer than ever to receive a Nobel

Does "It has to stop at some point" refer to "the Nobel Committee’s rule banning posthumous prize has to stop at some point"?

 

[jutfrank]

No.

He saying that's it's not fair becasue people are dying off before their work is recognised, and so there should be a limit to the length of the gap.

He also adds that overturning the posthumous ban would be another way to help solve the problem.

 

[Tarheel]

@jutfrank
I get that, but I'm not sure what "the gap" means.

 

[jutfrank]

I get that, but I'm not sure what "the gap" means.

The gap is the lag, i.e., the delay between doing the work and getting the award.

 

[GoodTaste]

No.

He saying that's it's not fair becasue people are dying off before their work is recognised, and so there should be a limit to the length of the gap.

He also adds that overturning the posthumous ban would be another way to help solve the problem.

I think the single sentence "It has to stop at some point" has done the both: closing the gap and giving up the banning.
Simply put, it is a pun.

 

[emsr2d2]

I think the single sentence "It has to stop at some point" has done the both: closing the gap and giving up reversing/cancelling the banning ban.

Simply put, it is a pun.

There's no pun there.

 

[GoodTaste]

There's no pun there.

Okay. One stone, two birds.

 

[Piscean]

One stone, two birds.

What does that mean?

 

[GoodTaste]

What does that mean?

That sentence killed two birds with one stone.