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were the religious people. You know, those who expressed themselves. There was one man who was a chaplain of Lawrenceville School in Jersey -- he wrote a letter to the TIMES in which he was practically asking for my decapitation. Then, after the religious people, then my colleagues in social psychology, who sort of saw me as somewhat of a traitor.
Trojan horse?
And then other psychologists, including physiological psychologists, interestingly enough, were kind of negative. Clinicians were very negative. Their position was, as I said in this statement, that if there was going to be any behavior modification control, it must be only through their method. Psychotherapy.
Then, on the positive side, interestingly enough, there were prisoners. The inmates of prisons who wrote me, volunteering for research. They understood that I was asking for research.
Oh, did I mention Agnew?
No.
Well, (Spiro) Agnew, boy, he said in a speech that he made before some merchants, businessmen in Chicago, a few months after my presentation -- he said that the two most dangerous men in America were B.F. Skinner and Kenneth Clark, and they had to be watched and controlled. I allude to that in my paper.
I have a former student, Murray Jarvick, who went into psychopharmacology. He's a physician and psychologist. He has his PhD
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