Harvard scientist guilty of misconduct

The New York Times is reporting that Harvard University has found a prominent researcher, Marc Hauser, “solely responsible” for eight instances of scientific misconduct.

Dr. Hauser is a leader in the field of animal and human cognition, and in 2006 wrote a well-received book, “Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong.”

Harvard’s findings against him, if sustained, may cast a shadow over the broad field of scientific research that depended on the particular research technique often used in his experiments.

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