Still more Jonah Lehrer offenses

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Journalism's latest embarrassment has lost another outlet. Wired.com cut ties with Jonah Lehrer after commissioning a review of his work by science writer and journalism professor Charles Seife. Among his conclusions: "Lehrer has been recycling his material for years; he was doing it in 2008 and probably even earlier. It's amazing — and disturbing — that it took so long for anyone to notice." More from Poynter.

RE: Still more Jonah Lehrer offenses

A closing thought on Lehrer: Did his fashion sense and "supermodel good looks" encourage others to embrace him? In my latest Tracker post:

http://ksj.mit.edu/tracker/2012/09/jonah-lehrer-falls-even-further