Harvard monkey boy denied bananas for one year

Harvard U. Finds Evidence of Scientific Misconduct by Professor (Chronicle of Higher Education)

An investigation by Harvard University has found evidence of scientific misconduct by Marc Hauser, a professor of psychology, The Boston Globe reports. Mr. Hauser, who studies the evolution of cognition, apparently was not able to produce data to support his conclusions in a paper that found that monkeys had abilities key to learning language. The university has said Mr. Hauser is now on a one-year leave but declined to say whether that was a punishment, citing confidentiality. Cognition, the journal that published the influential paper, will retract it. Other journals where Mr. Hauser has published, including Science, are conducting investigations of their own.

Art Pedroza pokes Don Wagner

     In this morning’s refreshingly tabloidal Orange Juice blog, serial gratuitous opiner and loose cannoneer Art Pedroza takes aim at our own Don Wagner (Don Wagner’s backers are a Who’s Who of lame Republicans).
     What’s his beef with Don?
     Art doesn’t like Don’s tea-partying banter on immigration (Don “goes nuts”) and says that Don “comes off sounding like some sort of religious fanatic.”
     The “worst,” though, he writes, is the chorus of full-throated Wagnerians, which (quoting Art) includes:

• Tim Whitacre, the guy who led Bill Hunt down the Mexican-bashing trail. How did that work out Tim?
• U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher – a total loon who bashes Mexicans even more than Whitacre and his boys do

• Michael Schroeder. Nuff said.
• Hugh Hewitt…..
• Tom Fuentes. Ousted as OC GOP Chairman but still wreaking havock on the South OC Community College District Board of Trustees.
• John Williams, the corrupt OC Public Administrator/Guardian. Figures.
• Costa Mesa Councilwoman Wendy Leece. An ally of Mexican-basher Allan Mansoor.
• Jim Righeimer, the next lame Costa Mesa Councilman
• Ken Maddox, the Capo Trustee who is facing a recall [end of quotation]

     The list is a little hinky, ‘cause at least some of these people (Fuentes, Williams) are now Wagnerians like I’m into John Denver. And that’s a plus, not a minus, for Don, right?
     I do like the stark beauty of Art’s take on John Williams: “corrupt.”
     And Michael Schroeder? I sympathize with the “Nuff said,” but, really, never is enough said about that guy. I mean, he defends chiropractors!
     Art has his virtues and vices, I suppose, but surely you’d have to put his Photoshop skills in the latter column:

What's that thing in Don's hand supposed to be?

And how come it's got a microphone on one end of it?

     Be sure to write in (to OJ blog, not to us) to defend our Don.

Suggested comments:

     “Oh yeah? FU.”
     “Don actually did vote for Mexicans before he voted against them.”
     “Guilt by association, eh? What next? Criticizing a man for his views?
     “Don is better looking than you, Art, though that ain’t sayin’ much, Pumpkin Head.”
     “Calling people lame is so lame.”
     “Havoc? Nuh-uh! The accreditors gave both SOCCCD colleges their biggest Brownie point!”

Peter Mullin's "French Curves" collection

Bill Gates on the fate of college instruction