Allen Esterson brought this to our atttention from _The Atlantic_: > >Vargas ...showed me a letter written in 1975 by the then wildly popular and > influential pediatrician Benjamin Spock, who had been asked to comment > on Skinner´s work for a documentary. "I´m embarrassed to say I > haven´t read any of his work," Spock wrote, "but I know that > it´s fascist and manipulative, and therefore I can´t approve of > it."
http://snipurl.com/23qfgw2 Wow! I also liked this bit one paragraph earlier from this long, interesting article on the revival of behaviour modification in the smartphone era: "In 1965, when Julie Vargas was a student in a graduate psychology class, her professor introduced the topic of B. F. Skinner...After the professor explained the evidently distasteful, outmoded process that became more popularly known as behavior modification, Vargas´s classmates began discussing the common knowledge that Skinner had used the harsh techniques on his daughter, leaving her mentally disturbed and institutionalized. Vargas raised her hand and stated that Skinner in fact had had two daughters, and that both were living perfectly normal lives. "I didn´t see any need to embarrass them by mentioning that I was one of those daughters," she says. " Too bad. She should have. Stephen -------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada e-mail: sblack at ubishops.ca --------------------------------------------- --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=18085 or send a blank email to leave-18085-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
