Skinner was the most influential and controversial living American psychologist in 1971

Evidence

In a 1971 cover story, Time magazine described Burrhus Frederic “B. F.” Skinner as “an institution at Harvard… the most influential of living American psychologists, and the most controversial contemporary figure in the science of human behavior, adored as a messiah and abhorred as a menace.” — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1144

Categorization

• CANDY: Time’s ‘adored as a messiah and abhorred as a menace’ is a fun, tweetable epithet that needs no context.