Just enjoyed Hauser’s talk at Edge. Oddly His book Wild Minds was one of the less persuasive off Sam’s reading list… Anyway, a lot is unknown here let the investigation reveal whatever is true.

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This is the scientific method at work.  Peer review and repeatability of experiments.  By the way, there is a follow-up article in the New York Times now:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/14/education/14harvard.html

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Seeing how both Hauser and Harris have been participants in “the new science of morality” i wonder how much (if at all) Hauser’s research has had an impact on Harris’ forthcoming book “The Moral Landscape”, and whether this could delay it’s release.

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Just want to tip my hat to Sam and Project Reason for posting this article.  It lends credibility to the whole premise of Project Reason that a person like Harris, who stands to be undermined by this scandal, is willing to provide honest disclosure rather then playing political propoganda games. 

Furthermore, this revelation mean only that Hauser’s work is called into question.  Investigating morality from scientific viewpoint is a credible undertaking.  More credible in fact, now that we know they will only stand by data properly obtained.

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Hail to criticism and the scientific method!

I like Hauser but science is not a game of being kind and open to errors.

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It’s the monkeys I tells ya! Cotton-topped tamarins are the most cunning monkey’s around–of course they can see themselves in the mirror!

Here’s what really happened: They did a couple of good tapes for the experiments, satisfied the hypothesises, then, after hours, they filmed alternate versions, destroyed the original tapes, doctored the records, and, when the time was right, alerted the Harvard authorities.

As for considering their motives, well, it is here that we must depart from evidential clarity and plunge ourselves into the mystical swamp of speculation. Maybe the tamarins are determined to keep facts about their superior intellects secret. And maybe they want to do that, so that they can launch an invasion of the earth’s surface from their hi-tech urban sprawls of an elaborate underground cavern network and enslave the human race for the facilitation of their intergalactic aspirations!

Dr. Hauser is only the first of what will be a spate of intellectuals that will mysteriously be discredited, or, even worse, found dead in their home or office.

I for one welcome the emergence of our cotton-top overlords, for, it is only by Their wisdom, and in Their service, that the human race will discover its highest calling.

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