Robin Abrahams, our psychology editor, writes in Salon:
“What kind of a pet owner voluntarily submits her dog for laboratory experiments? The kind who very much hoped that the scientists would give out bumper stickers that read, “My Dog Is an Honor Student at the Harvard Canine Cognition Lab,” that’s who. Now that the academic superstar behind the lab, Marc Hauser, has been brought up on eight counts of scientific misconduct (an imbroglio that’s been followed by the Boston Globe and the New York Times, among others), the bumper sticker sounds like a bad idea….”