....and he says Slater didn't describe the story about Deborah in a Skinner box as true. He says Slater prefaced it with the phrase "what we presume to know", and she ended by saying "It all seems, without a doubt, good intentioned, if not downright noble, and sets Skinner firmly in humane waters". He speculates that perhaps Deborah didn't actually read Slater's book (and, of course, we didn't either, shame on us).
I'm not sure that hiding behind statements like "what we presume to know" when facts are easily checked (and the rumour long since debunked) is much of an improvement.
All she had to do was go to the 'Snopes' Web site (my favorite for checking urban myths):
http://www.snopes.com/science/skinner.asp
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