ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the human side of revolutionary giant's life and contributions to the science of psychology. Hence, the focus of Skinnerian science was not on happenings inside the organism but on events outside it. Also, and quite paradoxically, Fred was compelled to deal with men who identified with the Kiwanis Club creed that he had rejected as an undergraduate at Hamilton College. Although Walden Two initially made a stir, especially in a review in Life that described the novel as 'a corruption' of Henry David Thoreau's classic, Walden, few copies of Skinners's book were sold until the counterculture era in the 1960s and early 1970s. The departure was unacceptable to Edwin G. Boring, the head of the Harvard Psychological Laboratory and the most powerful figure in the department. In a five-page typed letter, Boring accused Skinner of pretending to write a history of the reflex while really dismissing that history and substituting his own interpretation as scientific fact.
