August 15, 2012

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Jonah Lehrer will keep his contract at Wired, Reyhan Harmanci and Ben Smith report.

“Jonah was and remains on a features contract with Wired,” spokesman Jon Hammond told BuzzFeed. “We chose to maintain our contract.”

The magazine is still looking at Lehrer’s previous work, Hammond tells Harmanci and Smith, but has not “come across anything that seems too troubling.”

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