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Marcus started telling me about string theory and, for some reason, the behaviorist B.F. Skinner. “Unfortunately most of his theories were disproven later on by other scientists who found flaws ...

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B.F. Skinner, 86, died of leukemia last month in Cambridge, Mass. The noted behaviorist had received a lifetime achievement award two days earlier from the American Psychological Association at its ...