乔纳·雷尔

乔纳·雷尔（英语：Jonah Lehrer，也有译作乔纳·莱勒，1981年—），美国作家及记者，从事于有关心理学、神经科学、科学及人文学科的写作工作。著有两本书。

生平

雷尔在哥伦比亚大学主修神经科学，于2003年毕业。大学时他曾在诺贝尔奖得奖者神经学家埃里克·坎德尔的实验室工作过，并在哥伦比亚大学校刊杂志《哥伦比亚书评》担任过两年编辑。之后他获得罗德奖学金，在英国牛津大学攻读二十世纪文学与哲学。雷尔曾负责《连线》、《科学美国人》中《大脑介质》（Mind Matter）博客、以及美国全国公共广播电台的广播实验室（Radiolab）的编辑工作。亦曾为《纽约客》、《Wired》、《自然》、《种子》（Seed）、《科学人》、《华盛顿邮报》、《华尔街日报》的《Head Case》专栏以及《波士顿环球报》撰稿。他的博客《前额皮层（Frontal Cortex）》受到极高的赞誉，并且自2009年出版两本在美国极为畅销的科普书，于Amazon及纽约时报畅销书排行榜列入前十名。

自2012年1月，雷尔被发现在为上述刊物撰写的文章以及其两本书中，有多处捏造引述的不实内容，或涉嫌抄袭的内容。此事被美国新闻媒体广泛报导且强烈批评。出版社全面回收停止发行其书。雷勒被迫辞去相关的专栏作者及编辑工作，并公开发表声明向社会大众道歉。

著作

《为什么大猩猩比专家高明：如何让大脑帮你做出正确的选择》，译者：丁丹，东方出版社，2010年1月

Jonah Richard Lehrer (born June 25, 1981) is an American author and blogger. Lehrer studied neuroscience at Columbia University and was a Rhodes Scholar. Thereafter, he built a media career that integrated science and humanities content to address broad aspects of human behaviour. Between 2007 and 2012 Lehrer published three non-fiction books that became best-sellers, and also wrote regularly for The New Yorker and Wired.com.

Starting in 2012, Lehrer was discovered to have routinely recycled his earlier work and fabricated or misused quotations and facts, and was alleged to have plagiarized from colleagues. Scrutiny began when freelance journalist Michael Moynihan identified multiple fabrications in Lehrer's third book, Imagine: How Creativity Works (2012), including six quotations attributed to musician Bob Dylan. Imagine and Lehrer's earlier book How We Decide (2009) were recalled after a publisher's internal review found significant problems in that material. He was also fired from The New Yorker and Wired. In 2016, Lehrer published A Book About Love, to negative reviews.

Early life, education, employment

Jonah Richard Lehrer was born on June 25, 1981, in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles. His mother, Ariella (born Jean Hively), a developer of educational software, converted to Judaism to marry his father, David Lehrer, a civil rights lawyer.

Lehrer graduated from North Hollywood High School. When he was 15, he won $1,000 in an essay contest run by NASDAQ. In 2000, he worked as a line chef at the Midtown Manhattan restaurants Le Cirque and Le Bernardin.

Lehrer majored in neuroscience at Columbia University. While an undergraduate, he worked in the laboratory of Eric Kandel, "examining the biological process of memory and what happens in the brain on a molecular level when a person remembers or forgets information". He appears on one published paper from that laboratory, as fourth of eight authors on a primary report in a three-laboratory collaborative genetics study characterizing homologs of the human DYRK1A gene from model organism C. elegans, a gene believed to "play a significant role in the neuropathology of Down syndrome".

While at Columbia, Lehrer also contributed to the Columbia Review, and was its editor for two years. He tied for second place for the Dean Hawkes Memorial Prize in the Humanities. Lehrer was a 2003 Rhodes Scholarship recipient, supporting his study at Wolfson College at Oxford University; while he is reported to have planned to study "philosophy, physiology and psychology", he is further reported to have instead studied 20th century literature and philosophy.

Writing career

Print and online periodicals

Lehrer has written for The New Yorker (July 2008-March 2012; staff writer June 2012), Wired (July 2010-June 2012) Scientific American Mind (June 2008-July 2009), Grantland, The Wall Street Journal, and The Boston Globe, as well as the journal Nature, and Seed magazine.

Lehrer was a contributing editor for a variety of publications, including Scientific American Mind (2009-2012) and Radiolab (2007-2012, 38 episodes).

Lehrer resigned from The New Yorker on July 30, 2012, after accusations of fabricated Bob Dylan quotes in Imagine surfaced. On August 31, 2012, Wired.com's editor-in-chief, Evan Hansen, stating Lehrer's "failure to meet ... editorial standards", severed the relationship between that venue and the writer.

Books

Lehrer is the author of three best-selling books: Proust Was a Neuroscientist (2007), How We Decide (2009), and Imagine: How Creativity Works (2012). The latter two books were withdrawn from the market by their publishers after "internal review uncovered significant problems" with the books. These and other work by Lehrer were characterized as having misused quotes and facts, plagiarized press releases and authored work, and to have otherwise recycled earlier published work. These acts and the process of uncovering them are recounted in So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson.