Over at Slate I look from another angle at the Marc Hauser meltdown, with an emphasis on separating the problems of Hauser’s misconduct from the merits of the methods and hypotheses he was wielding. When the university last month found Hauser guilty of scientific misconduct—ugly and serious words, those, meaning in this case either […]
Continue reading →Where’d Marc Hauser go? He was here a few days ago. Roy Baumeister, Paul Bloom, Joshua D. Greene, Jonathan Haidt, Sam Harris, Joshua Knobe, Elizabeth Phelps, David Pizarro The Mayflower Inn Washington, CT & Eastover Farm Bethlehem, CT Tuesday July 20 – Thursday, July 22, 2010 Edge’s Morality show lineup, cleansed of Hauser. Hm. […]
Continue reading →Moving your blog generally creams one’s reader numbers. So I was happy to see that though I left Scienceblogs in mid-July, August was easily Neuron Culture’s highest traffic month ever. What generates so much interest? Scandal and dustups. What’s new in the world? My Marc Hauser coverage easily generated the biggest share of traffic, with […]
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