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Document Sheds Light on Investigation at Harvard
from the Chronicle of Higher
Education
Ever since word got out that a
prominent Harvard University researcher
was on leave after an investigation into
academic wrongdoing, a key question has
remained unanswered: What, exactly, did
he do?
The researcher himself, Marc D.
Hauser, isn't talking. The usually
quotable Mr. Hauser, a psychology
professor and director of Harvard's
Cognitive Evolution Laboratory, is the
author of Moral Minds: How Nature
Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and
Wrong (Ecco, 2006) and is at work on
a forthcoming book titled Evilicious:
Why We Evolved a Taste for Being
Bad. He has been voted one of the
university's most popular professors.
... An internal document ... sheds
light on what was going on in Mr.
Hauser's lab. It tells the story of how
research assistants became convinced that
the professor was reporting bogus data
and how he aggressively pushed back
against those who questioned his findings
or asked for verification.
Read more...
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