In Harvard Lab Inquiry, a Raid and a 3-Year Wait
By NICHOLAS WADE
Published: August 13, 2010
Marc Hauser’s academic career was soaring when suddenly, three years ago, Harvard authorities raided his laboratory and confiscated computers and records.
Rick Friedman for The New York Times
Marc Hauser, who has explored the origin of morality, is on academic leave.
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Dr. Hauser continued to publish and lecture widely until last week, while all the time researchers at Harvard and elsewhere who knew of the raid kept waiting for the other shoe to drop.
In January this year, a faculty committee at last completed its report, said to contain eight charges against Dr. Hauser. But the report was kept secret and nothing changed until this month when someone showed The Boston Globe a letter about the investigation from Dr. Hauser to his faculty colleagues. Dr. Hauser’s automated e-mail reply says he is “on leave, furiously writing a book.”
Dr. Hauser has been one of Harvard’s rising academic stars, with a public visibility approaching that of the
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