WIKIMEDIA COMMONS, MUNS
Nearly a year after being found guilty of eight counts of scientific misconduct by an internal investigation, Harvard cognitive scientist Marc Hauser resigns, effective August 1, the Boston Globe reported yesterday (July 19).
During his 18 years at the university, Hauser led a primate lab investigating the evolution of morality and the differences in cognitive abilities between humans and other animals. A three year investigation by Harvard resulted in the finding that Hauser was solely responsible for a number of unexplained data inconsistencies, which called into question the findings of three published papers.
One of the three papers in question, published in 2002 in the journal Cognition, was retracted because the data did not support the study’s conclusions. A correction was made to a second ...
