“We have no statement from anyone, just one withdrawn paper. The scientific community needs to know if this was a quirk or a pattern.”

August 14, 2010 4:51 AM

Marc Hauser, Harvard Academic, Faces Inquiry. Marc Hauser--whose books Wild Minds and Moral Minds have made him a media favorite--is on leave pending a review of his work. Harvard is being criticized for the secrecy of the investigation. A colleague who had written jokingly in the past about the "Hauser Effect"--"Time and time again, a trait seen only in humans, or only in apes, or only in humans and chimps, a trait that might make a good phylogenetic marker to circumscribe a phylogenetically coherent special class of animals to which we afford a common right, is found in New World Monkeys (or some other group) by experimenters such as Hauser"--responds. Another cognitive scientist weighs in on the bigger picture of academic journals and the politics of ideas. Previously
posted by availablelight (3 comments total)

Double.
posted by Philosopher Dirtbike at 4:55 AM on August 14, 2010

dammit. (I'll have to add one or two of the links I found to the previous post....plus the tag, marchauser)
posted by availablelight at 4:59 AM on August 14, 2010

No big deal. It's a triple for Time Magazine.
posted by twoleftfeet at 5:07 AM on August 14, 2010 [1 favorite]