Marc Hauser, who up until a few days ago was heading the Canine Cognition Lab at Harvard, has been accused of misrepresenting his results in at least one key paper on animal cognition, which reported an ability in tamarin monkeys to generalize patterns the way human infants do when learning language.
"Harvard University psychologist Marc Hauser, a well-known scientist and author of the book Moral Minds, is taking a year-long leave after a lengthy internal investigation found evidence of scientific misconduct in his laboratory. ... An internal examination at Harvard University . . . found that the data do not support the reported findings. We therefore are retracting this article." - Boston Globe
I hope they continue to operate the lab in his absence. If so, this might also give them an extra incentive to be as meticulous as possible in how they set up their experiments, as well as in how they read their data.
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