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...item on a California jury verdict against SCM Corporation for unfair competition [March 5] contained an unfortunate statement suggesting that SCM had "a policy of using sabotage as a sales tactic." That statement is an incorrect reference to equivocal testimony by an ex-SCM employee, himself fired for proposing unethical conduct...
These examples, and numerous others, point to a conceptual fallacy, not just a problem of implementation. Skinnerian terms may have relevance in an animal laboratory, but when used to describe or comprehend human situations they are not only incorrect, but actually distort the meaning of those situations. For example, the community decided against children after problems involving disputes over ultimate responsibility for existing children, and lack of community interest in devoting its time to child care. From this experience Kinkade concludes that a "controlled environment" is necessary to "arrange" the proper type of child. But this solution, which deals with...
...Forest. In our story on February 6 dealing with the family's views on the January committee report we reported that "three of the four participants in the meeting [with President Bok and Daniel Steiner] strongly opposed the conclusions of the report. We have since found this was incorrect. In fact, all four of the participants opposed both the report and the Storm King Project. We had understood incorrectly that Calvin Stillman was there. However, he presented his views in another form. According to reliable sources, his views are not shared by the remainder of the family. The Editors
...status'; which was made obvious in 1949 with the publication of The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir. No, more than anything else the righteous and intrinsic concern of teminism appears to me to be the liberation of one's psychology, and one's self-definition, from the essentially incorrect and oppressive definition of some other...
...incorrect disqualification that we should have protested, but we acted too late," Coach Peter Carter said yesterday...