Is there any reason to be worried about his work other than the fairly subjective coding of animal and infant behavior? Yes, I would expect that to correlate with fraud in other experiments, but I would also expect fraud in experiments like this one to be easily detected in the actual investigation, and that doesn’t seem to have happened.
I don’t know. But I do suspect that most scientific fraud takes place at the research-design stage. There is enormous pressure to publish, pressure to graduate. It takes integrity to resist that pressure. Hauser really does have a remarkable record of publication, even after you subtract the ones that he was forced to retract because the results could not be replicated or in which data was clearly faked.
What do you think? Would you trust cutting edge, glamorous research from this man? A guy who has been involved in glamorous research so many times before. And Saxe as the other senior researcher in this paper. Wow, someone who has been invited to do TED lectures. These people are true rock-stars among scientists.
Is there any reason to be worried about his work other than the fairly subjective coding of animal and infant behavior? Yes, I would expect that to correlate with fraud in other experiments, but I would also expect fraud in experiments like this one to be easily detected in the actual investigation, and that doesn’t seem to have happened.
I don’t know. But I do suspect that most scientific fraud takes place at the research-design stage. There is enormous pressure to publish, pressure to graduate. It takes integrity to resist that pressure. Hauser really does have a remarkable record of publication, even after you subtract the ones that he was forced to retract because the results could not be replicated or in which data was clearly faked.
What do you think? Would you trust cutting edge, glamorous research from this man? A guy who has been involved in glamorous research so many times before. And Saxe as the other senior researcher in this paper. Wow, someone who has been invited to do TED lectures. These people are true rock-stars among scientists.