Psychologist Lauren Slater’s new book “Opening Skinner’s Box” has been hailed as “a bridge the gap between academic and popular psychology,” but the experts are attacking. “Some say that she put invented quotations in her new book. Others question her methods and data in her own experiment in faking mental illness or challenge the accuracy of her description of some famous past experiments. Critics have been publicizing their accusations in book reviews on Amazon.com and other Internet sites, while professors at several schools, including Harvard, Columbia and Emory universities, have been exchanging information on their views of the book’s failings.”