Scientists are calling on Harvard University to make public details about the findings of its three-year internal investigation of psychology professor Marc Hauser?s laboratory, which found evidence of scientific misconduct.
The article quotes Jenny Saffran, a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who published a paper with Hauser in Cognition in 2008 looking at grammar-learning in infants and in cotton-top tamarin monkeys. In an e-mail, Saffran said she tested the infants in her lab, but the monkeys were tested in Hauser?s lab.
?I am fully confident in the infant results,?? Saffran wrote. ?I don?t have access to the raw data for the monkey studies. I hope Harvard will share any pertinent results of their investigation with me. At this point, they know more than I do about whether concern is warranted about the monkey results in our paper.??