Marc Hauser, the "Moral Minds" guy was a liar.

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

“there wasn’t even any suggestive evidence,” said Dr. Gallup, who is at the State University of New York in Albany. “It was like a complete disconnect between what appeared in the paper and what I saw on the tapes.” Dr. Hauser at first disputed Dr. Gallup’s judgment but in 2001 reported that he had failed to replicate the earlier result.

Basically this guy was well known for being interesting. I've always been told that the cardinal sin of social science research was to be boring... i guess those people forget that faking your laboratory data is a bad idea too.

Apparently some graduate assistants turned him in; would you do the same and risk destroying your own credibility in the market place?
 
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