“…As a consequence, critics of the former have characterized BA as a closed, restrictive, and even perishing community (Hearst, 1967;Rutherford, 2009;Wendt, 1949), although some have rebutted such claims (Roediger, 2004). Such isolation strongly influences persistent discussions on BA life expectancy (Baum, 2000;Carr, 1996;Fantino, 2008;Hayes & Fryling, 2015;Michael, 1980;Poling, 2010;Vyse, 2013; for an entire issue on the topic, see Holth, 2014) and calls for equipping and encouraging behavior analysts to disseminate their findings more broadly (Bailey, 1991;Freedman, 2015;Smith, 2016).…”