"Citing misconduct inquiry, Harvard professor cancels classes" by Carolyn Y. Johnson, Globe Staff | September 1, 2010
Harvard psychology professor Marc Hauser canceled a Harvard Extension School class on cognitive evolution that he was scheduled to start teaching yesterday and dropped plans to offer a spring class called “The Moral Sense: From Genes to Law.’’
Hauser, who was found by an internal Harvard investigation to have engaged in scientific misconduct, is on a one-year leave from research and teaching in the university’s main arts and sciences school, though the Globe reported last month that he still planned to teach in the extension school.
Are there any scientists that tell the truth in an AmeriKan newspaper?
But the extension school sent an e-mail to students who were enrolled in the fall semester class stating that the course has been canceled “at the request of the instructor, Professor Marc Hauser.’’
Why did he WAIT SO LONG?
“We deeply regret the late nature of this decision and fully understand the inconvenience this imposes upon you,’’ the e-mail said....
You know, I don't think they do.
The editor of a journal that published a paper that Hauser and two coauthors have retracted said it would have been inappropriate for Hauser to teach at Harvard now.
So when is the LIAR going to be FIRED!
“I do believe somebody who the university has accused of misconduct is, by definition, not an ambassador for that university, and putting that person in the position where they have an ambassadorial role . . . is really quite extraordinary,’’ said Gerry Altmann, editor of Cognition.
In a letter to faculty last month, Harvard dean Michael D. Smith said that Hauser had been found solely responsible for eight instances of scientific misconduct, involving three published papers and five other experiments.
He wrote that Harvard was cooperating with inquiries by the federal Office of Research Integrity, the National Science Foundation office of inspector general, and the US attorney’s office for the District of Massachusetts. Some of Hauser’s research was supported by federal funds.
I will NEVER BELIEVE a GOVERNMENT-FUNDED $CIENTI$T ever again!
Maybe your profession could start CLEANING OUT the LIARS so you can REGAIN the TRUST of the PEOPLE, huh?
Of course, then those GOVERNMENT GRANTS would stop, wouldn't they?
