If he did, it's news to me!
As Stephen Black said, it's rather out of character.
Nothing in his bibliography remotely connected to the topic.
At 9:38 PM -0300 10/20/00, David Likely wrote:
>A trivia question, the short of which is, was
>Fred Skinner a promoter of some sort of vitamin
>or megavitamin therapy, and if so, does somebody
>have a reference?
>
>The long of it is that I'm reading a book, rather
>good overall, on the history of science and
>music, in which the author defends "crackpot"
>ideas held by various scientists on the grounds
>that "free inquiry has always embraced the
>freedom to be wrong, sometimes wildly wrong."
>the author's examples include Kepler's astrology,
>Newton's "alchemy" [but not his analysis of the
>Bible] and Fred Hoyle's "heterodox views on extra-
>terrestrial life." These I do know about, but the
>book also asks rhetorically, "Are B. F. Skinner's
>contributions to modern psychology tainted
>by his zealous proselytizing for vitamin therapy?"
>This is news to me -- I did wonder if he was thinking
>of Linus Pauling who I seem to remember was a
>vitamin C fan.
>
>Ref: James, Jamie. The music of the spheres: music,
>science and the natural order of the unverse.
>Originally Grove Press: New York, 1993. (I have the
>Copernicus [Springer-Verlag] paperback edition, '95)
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