Harvard’s Damning Report on Marc Hauser’s Fraud Charges
Ever since Marc Hauser’s 2011 resignation from Harvard amid findings of scientific misconduct, observers, critics, colleagues, and defenders have argued a...
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Marc Hauser’s Evilicious Rebound From Fraud Draws Generous Puffs
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...
Researcher Caught Up in Fraud Case Punches Back
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...
War, Beauty, Balls, and Fraud
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...
Marc Hauser Resigns from Harvard
Marc Hauser, the star psychologist and morality researcher accused of fraud, has resigned his position at Harvard. Appropriately, the Globe’s Carolyn John...
Marc Hauser News: A Settling, or Pre-Quake Tremors?
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 ...
Neuron Culture’s Best of Year
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...
Harvard opens the (exit) door a crack for Hauser
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 ...
The Boston Globe on the Hauser Fallout
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...
Speaking Skeptically about Mark Hauser and morality research
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 ...