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Inquiry on Harvard Lab Threatens Ripple Effect - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Harvard has given no reason for the retraction, leaving researchers to wonder whether that article alone was flawed or whether all of Dr. Hauser’s results are suspect.
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The scientific community needs to know if this was a quirk or a pattern.”
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the university’s action has raised the larger problem of how far the many other articles from Dr. Hauser’s prolific pen can be trusted. Since the committee has made no charges public, the nature of Dr. Hauser’s errors is unknown and could fall anywhere within a wide range, from minor sins like sloppiness and bad record-keeping to self-deception to outright fabrication of data.
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anonymous on 16 Aug 10

Well known Harvard academic, Marc Hauser, is questioned about the veracity of some of his research publications.

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anonymous on 16 Aug 10

This could be helpful for this year's TOK Essay Title #2: How important are the opinions of experts in the search for knowledge? Also, makes you realize that just because someone has a PhD and tenure at Harvard doesn't mean you can always trust what they say!!!

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This could be helpful for this year's TOK Essay Title #2: How important are the opinions of experts in the search for knowledge? Also, makes you realize that just because someone has a PhD and tenure at Harvard doesn't mean you can always trust what they say!!!</div>

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BBC News - Do our memories get better or worse with age? - 0 views

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anonymous on 26 Sep 10

"Our ability to recall events seems to sharpen as we get older but can it be trusted"

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BBC News - The science of optical illusions - 0 views

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"Optical illusions are more than just a bit of fun. Scientist Beau Lotto is finding out what tricking the brain reveals about how our minds work. Here he explains his findings. Sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell. We believe what our senses tell us but most of all we trust our eyes. But our brains are extraordinarily powerful organs. Without us realising it, they are instantly processing the information they receive to make sense of the world around us. And that has been crucial to our evolution. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Optical illusions are more than just a bit of fun. Scientist Beau Lotto is finding out what tricking the brain reveals about how our minds work. Here he explains his findings. Sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell. We believe what our senses tell us but most of all we trust our eyes. But our brains are extraordinarily powerful organs. Without us realising it, they are instantly processing the information they receive to make sense of the world around us. And that has been crucial to our evolution. "</div>

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A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Measure - New York Times - 0 views

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"PSYCHOTHERAPY is having yet another identity crisis. It has manifested itself in two recent trends in the profession in America: the first involves trying to make therapy into more of a "hard science" by putting a new emphasis on measurable factors; the other is a growing belief among therapists that the standard practice of using talk therapy to discover traumas in a patient's past is not only unnecessary but can be injurious. That psychotherapists of various orientations find themselves under pressure to prove to themselves and to society that they are doing a hard-core science - which was a leading theme of the landmark Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference in California in December - is not really surprising. Given the prestige and trust the modern world gives to scientific standards, psychotherapists, who always have to measure themselves against the medical profession, are going to want to demonstrate that they, too, deal in the predictable; that they, too, can provide evidence for the value of what they do."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"PSYCHOTHERAPY is having yet another identity crisis. It has manifested itself in two recent trends in the profession in America: the first involves trying to make therapy into more of a "hard science" by putting a new emphasis on measurable factors; the other is a growing belief among therapists that the standard practice of using talk therapy to discover traumas in a patient's past is not only unnecessary but can be injurious. That psychotherapists of various orientations find themselves under pressure to prove to themselves and to society that they are doing a hard-core science - which was a leading theme of the landmark Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference in California in December - is not really surprising. Given the prestige and trust the modern world gives to scientific standards, psychotherapists, who always have to measure themselves against the medical profession, are going to want to demonstrate that they, too, deal in the predictable; that they, too, can provide evidence for the value of what they do."</div>

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Questions Grow About Ansel Adams Discovery - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  So history plays a methodological role in this debate...linking aspects of the negatives to events in Ansel Adams's life.
  
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He took his discovery to members of the Adams family, who disputed his claims. Adams had been notoriously protective of his negatives, locking them in a bank vault when he lived in San Francisco. Would he misplace a box of negatives? “Ansel would never have done something like that,” said William Turnage, managing trustee of the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights trust, which owns the rights to Adams’s name and work.
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- anonymous on 16 Aug 10
  
  But does the estate "know" that he never lost any negatives? Why might it be in their best interest to say that he never lost anything?
  
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But in 2007 Mr. Norsigian and Mr. Peter, his lawyer, set about organizing an authentication team that included a former F.B.I. agent, a former United States attorney, two handwriting experts, a meteorologist (to track cloud patterns in the images), a landscape photographer and a former curator of European decorative arts and sculpture for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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- anonymous on 16 Aug 10
  
  How convincing is this crew of experts?
  
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They concluded, without question, that the prints were of the sort made by Adams as a young photographer in the 1920s.
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- anonymous on 16 Aug 10
  
  How certain is this conclusion? Read it carefully.
  
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Among clients listed on his Web site are three former presidents, including Bill Clinton, and numerous celebrities. It features photos of him with Hollywood stars and with Maria Shriver, the wife of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California. A spokesman for Mr. Clinton said he did not recognize the dealer’s name.
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- anonymous on 16 Aug 10
  
  Do these "clients" add legitimacy to the claims?
  
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MEMORY ON TRIAL - Science-Weekly-podcast.mp3 - 1 views

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anonymous on 03 Dec 10

Can we trust the memory of court witnesses?

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