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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.

The scientific community needs to know if this was a quirk or a pattern.”

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.