The Globe reports that revelations about the scientific misdeeds of psychology researcher Marc Hauser may impact on all of the researchers in the Harvard Psychology Department.
…(M)any scientists fear that because Hauser contributed so much to the public perception of not only his own work, but of a field that looks for the evolutionary underpinnings of human cognitive abilities, the questions about him will also cast a broader shadow.
Susan Carey, who chairs the Harvard Psychology Department, said that discussions about what can or should be done are in their earliest stages, and no decisions have been made.
“We are members of the department where this happened, and we have students — whose work is most probably impeccable, who are being tainted by guilt by association,‘’ Carey said in an interview. "We are also scientists, who are very much hurt when science is hurt — when there’s academic misconduct.‘’
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