John Staddon is James B. Duke Professor of Psychology, and Professor of Biology Emeritus, at Duke University. He got his PhD in Experimental Psychology at Harvard University. is the author of more than 200 research papers and his books, include Scientific Method: How science works, fails to work or pretends to work. Taylor and Francis (2016), Adaptive Dynamics: The Theoretical Analysis of Behavior, (MIT/Bradford, 2001), Adaptive Behavior and Learning 2nd edition (Cambridge University Press, 2016). The New Behaviorism: Foundations of behavioral science (3rd Edition) Taylor and Francis, 2021 and Science in an age of unreason (Regnery, 2022). He was profiled in the Wall Street Journal in January 2021 as a commentator on the current problems of science.
