Government Sanctions Harvard Psychologist
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Government Sanctions Harvard Psychologist
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In 2010, Harvard University psychologist Marc Hauser seemed to be at the pinnacle of his career. His provocative work probing the biological origins of cognition and morality had yielded collaborations with prominent scholars, as well as frequent media attention. And with the recent publication of a popular book on moral cognition, he had moved into the rarified sphere of the public intellectual. Then a Harvard investigation concluded that the author of Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong had engaged in scientific misconduct. Last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Research Integrity (ORI) confirmed the findings, revealing that Hauser fabricated and falsified methods and data in six federally funded studies.
