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Harvard’s Damning Report on Marc Hauser’s Fraud Charges

Posted on June 10, 2014 by David Dobbs / 6 Comments

Ever since Marc Hauser’s 2011 resignation from Harvard amid findings of scientific misconduct, observers, critics, colleagues, and defenders have argued a...

Books/Culture/Culture of Science

Marc Hauser’s Evilicious Rebound From Fraud Draws Generous Puffs

Posted on September 26, 2013 by David Dobbs / 2 Comments

Having written quite a bit about the ruckus raised when Harvard psychologist Marc Hauser was caught fabricating data and committing other acts of scientific mis...

Brains and Behavior/Culture of Science/Uncategorized

Researcher Caught Up in Fraud Case Punches Back

Posted on June 25, 2012 by David Dobbs / 4 Comments

When a researcher fudges data or engages in other fraudulent behavior, among those most wronged are the collaborators who did nothing wrong. Often there are man...

Culture of Science/Uncategorized

War, Beauty, Balls, and Fraud

Posted on August 1, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Neuron Culture’s Top 5 from July 1. Runaway most popular: The Toughest Plane Ever Built. This post about the plane in which my mother’s lover died s...

Brains and Behavior/Culture of Science/Uncategorized

Marc Hauser Resigns from Harvard

Posted on July 19, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Marc Hauser, the star psychologist and morality researcher accused of fraud, has resigned his position at Harvard. Appropriately, the Globe’s Carolyn John...

Brains and Behavior/Culture of Science/Uncategorized

Marc Hauser News: A Settling, or Pre-Quake Tremors?

Posted on May 2, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Lots of news has broken lately about Marc Hauser, the Harvard psychology professor famous first for studies of morality and cognition in nonhuman primates, and ...

Culture of Science/Uncategorized

Neuron Culture’s Best of Year

Posted on January 5, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

I resist best-of-year roundups when I see the heads — but then find I usually like reading them, and lo and behold, find it instructive to do my own. While most...

Brains and Behavior/Culture of Science/Uncategorized

Harvard opens the (exit) door a crack for Hauser

Posted on September 23, 2010 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Be easy to miss this. In an interview about several things (mainly the prospect of the ROTC returning to Harvard), Harvard president Drew Gilpin Faust gave the ...

Brains and Behavior/Culture of Science/Uncategorized

The Boston Globe on the Hauser Fallout

Posted on September 22, 2010 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

I’ve noted a few times that the Hauser misconduct case at Harvard would ripple through science for quite some time. Today the Boston Globe’s Carolyn...

Culture of Science/Uncategorized

Speaking Skeptically about Mark Hauser and morality research

Posted on September 20, 2010 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Did Marc Hauser fabricate or falsify data in his monkey studies? Will his troubles stain the fields of morality studies and evolutionary bases of behavior? How ...

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