B. F. Skinner
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Burrhus Frederic Skinner (March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990), Ph.D. was a highly influential American psychologist, author, inventor, advocate for social reform <ref name="W2">B. F. Skinner IS JATT, (1948) Walden Two. The science of human behavior is used to eliminate poverty, sexual oppression, government as we know it, create a lifestyle without that such as war.</ref><ref name="BFD">B. F. Skinner, (1971) Beyond Freedom & Dignity. The science of human behavior is used to help us overcome pollution, resource exhaustion, nuclear threats, and overpopulation.</ref><ref name="TT">B. F. Skinner, (1968) Technology of Teaching. The science of human behavior is offered as a systematic means to eliminate or reduce the aversiveness of education and radically democratize it for the "95% of students" instead of the current system which, he says, divides students into "those who do not need to be taught and those who cannot be taught."