Jonah Lehrer Fabricated Quotes

YankeeFan · Mar 2, 2013

Earlier book was b.s. too:

A second book by U.S. writer Jonah Lehrer, who previously admitted to making up quotes from singer Bob Dylan, is being pulled from sale, its publisher said on Friday.

Lehrer's book "How We Decide" will no longer be sold after going through a fact checking process, according to publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Published in 2009, the book explores how people's minds make decisions and how those decisions can be improved.

Lehrer's first book, "Proust Was a Neuroscientist," will continue to be sold, Lori Glazer, executive director of publicity for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, said in an email.

Lehrer last summer resigned as a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine after admitting he had made up quotes from singer and songwriter Dylan in his book "Imagine: How Creativity Works." Houghton Mifflin Harcourt immediately halted shipments of the physical books and e-book sales for "Imagine."

Lehrer, a science journalist and author, became the latest nonfiction writer to admit making up material, saying in a statement that he had lied to journalist Michael Moynihan of the online publication Tablet, who had questioned Lehrer about the authenticity of quotes in a section devoted to Dylan.

The inquiry by Moynihan followed earlier allegations that Lehrer had repurposed quotes in several New Yorker blogs.

Moynihan reported on Friday, in an article on The Daily Beast, that he had provided Houghton Mifflin Harcourt with some problematic passages from "How We Decide."

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Ace · Mar 4, 2013

YankeeFan said:

Earlier book was b.s. too:

A second book by U.S. writer Jonah Lehrer, who previously admitted to making up quotes from singer Bob Dylan, is being pulled from sale, its publisher said on Friday.

Lehrer's book "How We Decide" will no longer be sold after going through a fact checking process, according to publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Published in 2009, the book explores how people's minds make decisions and how those decisions can be improved.

Lehrer's first book, "Proust Was a Neuroscientist," will continue to be sold, Lori Glazer, executive director of publicity for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, said in an email.

Lehrer last summer resigned as a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine after admitting he had made up quotes from singer and songwriter Dylan in his book "Imagine: How Creativity Works." Houghton Mifflin Harcourt immediately halted shipments of the physical books and e-book sales for "Imagine."

Lehrer, a science journalist and author, became the latest nonfiction writer to admit making up material, saying in a statement that he had lied to journalist Michael Moynihan of the online publication Tablet, who had questioned Lehrer about the authenticity of quotes in a section devoted to Dylan.

The inquiry by Moynihan followed earlier allegations that Lehrer had repurposed quotes in several New Yorker blogs.

Moynihan reported on Friday, in an article on The Daily Beast, that he had provided Houghton Mifflin Harcourt with some problematic passages from "How We Decide."

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I guess he decided it's quicker and easier to make up quotes!

printit · Mar 4, 2013

Doesn't the publisher have some sort of obligation to tell people which passages were problematic. I bought this book a while ago but never got around to finishing it. Tempted to go back and read it and see if I can spot the problem parts. (Frankly, the parts I did read I thought were similar to work that others had already done better, which I think is why I stopped reading it).

Armchair_QB · Mar 4, 2013

printit said:

Doesn't the publisher have some sort of obligation to tell people which passages were problematic. I bought this book a while ago but never got around to finishing it. Tempted to go back and read it and see if I can spot the problem parts. (Frankly, the parts I did read I thought were similar to work that others had already done better, which I think is why I stopped reading it).
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How would a publisher go about doing that though? I guess you could release a statement but how many people will see it?

printit · Mar 4, 2013

Armchair_QB said:

printit said:

Doesn't the publisher have some sort of obligation to tell people which passages were problematic. I bought this book a while ago but never got around to finishing it. Tempted to go back and read it and see if I can spot the problem parts. (Frankly, the parts I did read I thought were similar to work that others had already done better, which I think is why I stopped reading it).
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How would a publisher go about doing that though? I guess you could release a statement but how many people will see it?
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Press release, put it on the website, lots of things they could do.

Glenn Stout · Mar 5, 2013

The most amazing thing is that Lehrer's website, www.jonahlehrer.com , is still up, utterly unchanged, still touting all this, frozen in time.

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