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Obedience droops to about 40 percent [inaudible 00:15:40]. Listen to free wherever you go to podcast and sign up at openearsproject.org. Yes, it's awesome, thank you, Ben. His health is failing in 1934, he takes a trip to Switzerland to a sanatorium-. As we continue listening to the Bad Show episode on human nature, our neighbors and ourselves, check out the Blank Slate by Steven Pinker available on Audible. But the weird thing is that he decides not just to take down Othello, but everybody. This hour we take a look at what happens when we all try to live together. But as the play goes on, you begin to think that maybe that's just another lie. Now, as we sort of know in life, lots of things that we if they're worthwhile doing, they're not always easy. This is just a tsunami of evil that passes through the play. He says, "Well, we can drive those enemy soldiers out of trenches with gas. What my father and his colleagues know is that something was done to these bodies; many of them after they were murdered. Have you ever thought about killing someone? Under some circumstances we don't do the bad thing we're told to do because" here's another flip "We don't have to be told. Did members of Haber's family die in the concentration camp? So he decided he was going to invent a process to pay for these reparations by himself. in this episode we begin with a chilling statistic: 91% of men, and 84% of women, have fantasized about killing someone. You know, solar energy from the sun to grow crops. My dorsal hair stood up when I read the end of this. Just tiptoes out, just from time to time. And while David's sitting in the bedroom with this friend, the guy looks up at him, and he says-, Like through his teeth, "I'm going to kill her.". He buried them or left their bodies in these little clumps in the woods. ", Yeah, so here's the interesting thing. Clara, also from Breslau, also from a Jewish family. I mean, that was makebelieve, but if you could somehow get a real Iago in the room and subject that person to questioning, and really get him to sort of fess up as to why they did it, would that make a difference? I've been thinking about him for the better part of a year as you know. And I- I killed her. We asked, "Who do you think about killing?" They were gagging, they were choking. He goes straight to the German [inaudible 00:36:56] and- and he pitches this idea. Milgram staged the whole thing like it was some experiment about memory and punishment, but of course it wasn't about that. And to make the problem even more annoying. Imagine how it feels to have an award-winning team by your side through the mortgage process. What makes a bad person so bad that he's different from the rest of us? Podcasts; . Yeah, well (laughing). "Do you think that more studies of this sort should be carried out?" Well the thing that haunts me about the why question is that I'm reminded of one of the oldest stories in the Bible, which is the story of Job. Making him the most prolific serial killer in American history. And, you know, my view about human nature is that it affords infinite potential for lightness and dark. We've got to know now. Dan Charles, Sam Keen, Latif Nasser, Fred Koffman and Fritz Stern. And every scenario produced a different result. ", Meanwhile, later that night on the other side of town-. Yep, women participants, he had an experimenter who wasn't a scientist, but was a member of the general public. Just a little glimmer. They're trying to be good participants. Hi, this is Lauren from Winnipeg. Or nice chair? These violent delights tienen fin violento. But if you think that's the right thing, if you think that science is worth pursuing you say, "Okay, I'll go along with this.". But if they were prepared to do that, and I suspect a lot of them would, um, then we'd say these are people who really believe in science. He eventually goes to England. One of the reasons it grows is because it's sucking up all the nitrogen in the soil. Do you leave this experiment in a light mood or in a dark mood overall? So around the turn of the century for German scientists like Haber, this was the challenge. And I basically spent the next half hour walking around with him trying to cool him off. That's what you do. So, who is- who is this guy right here? Right now get $50 towards select mattresses by visiting casper.com/radiolab and using Code Radiolab at checkout. But every time the experimenter pulled out the fourth prod, and this was confirmed when the experiment was redone in 2006, total disobedience. Yeah, me too. Our thanks to Ben Walker, whose podcast he has a podcast and it's a good one. You wouldn't though, would you really? And it's a craft, but it's a craft with consequences, and to approach it with kind of crazy joy? He's standing there on the front, pushing the gas into the lungs of other human beings, admittedly, it's a ware, but still. According to James, he is not the baddest-. Nobody had done what she was about to do on the scale that he was about to do it. These are- these are people who are incredibly noble. He was trying to repeat this master stroke. Go. And you tell us, "Actually, you know under some circumstances, we don't do the bad thing we're told to do because, here's another flip, we don't have to be told. 35.3M . Yes, I did mean to kill. And he believed it. 2K views almost 2 years ago 48:23 Love it or hate it, the freedom to say obnoxious and subversive things is the quintessence of what makes America America. The good Iagos make you want to shower the minute you leave the theater. Okay, it's all right, but we've got to know that. More energy than seemed, like, possible to make. He travels to the front. I'm really proud of Job, he believes in me, and he trusts me in so much, and he has such great faith in me. He has a pot belly. They couldn't deploy it. So he felt publicly humiliated. They're trying to do the right thing. So, I heard this one from this guy named David-. Nitrogen is an essential part of amino acids and proteins. Investigating a strange world. Yeah. And you find yourself in a situation where you've got to do something that's hard. And also thank you to Alex Haslem, Professor of Psychology at the University of Exeter. They wanted someone who was really thrillingly bad but, in the end, was redeemed a bit.". Yes. He takes over leadership of this institute in Berlin, and he starts hobnobbing with a whole different level of society. He's such a puzzle to me. With my arm. ", And the class ended, and I went back to my office, and I just sat at my desk, and I started reading these. Nothing to be ashamed of. And every scenario produced a different result. I'll give you bad. That the earth couldn't support this many people. Something's happening to that man in there. Jeff Jensen's book is the Green River Killer: A True Detective Story. Fast forward 10 years. Uh, so what happened to David that night with his friend got him really curious about murder and badness and all these things we're thinking about. Whatever it is. We will begin with this test. September 15, 2022 Radiolab for Kids and WNYC Studios present Terrestrials, a six-episode miniseries hosted by Lulu Miller (co-host of Radiolab . I think you got to answer it with him, right? All rights reserved. He said, "Look, this is what you're going to do is of course you don't want to do this. 65%-, to shock their fellow citizens over and over again-. And then he just trails off. In those days if you're a convicted male felon, you are strung up, but you're not allowed to hang until you die; you're cut down before then. And that was a question that had haunted my father for decades. Yeah. Right. Copyright 2019 New York Public Radio. He's such a puzzle to me. in this episode we begin with a chilling statistic: 91% of men, and . And you like her. Visit casper.com/radiolab and use code radiolab and check out to get $50 towards select mattresses. He would have each subject sit down at a table. He did this experiment a bunch of times in a bunch of different ways. I mean, yes, I did lie about that. This is Radio Lab, and today elements. Pince-nez, okay. Yeah, necrophilia. And she said, "My ex boyfriend. So, how do you feel about him now? And they ask for it to be reformulated to take out the warning smell. Our- our friend. Like, "Oh my God. What did you remember since we last talked [inaudible 00:57:19]? And so, I ex- expanded the sample where we asked about 5000 people. We realize this is hard work, but what you are doing is for the good of Germany. This episode of Radiolab, we wrestle with the dark side of human nature, and ask whether it's something we can ever really understand, or fully escape. And they would circle yes or no. Yeah, I agree with that. So he sends a letter to the Ministry of Education resigning, and he leaves Germany. And in the other room, there was a guy, who he called the learner, who was supposed to have memorized some words. And why I cared for her because I dated her before, but this day didn't turn out right. And he said, to start, "You want to know about bad? It was actually a crushing blow for- for him. I'll go along with this.". Radiolab is supported by Casper. And every time that guy got a word wrong-. Well, let's talk about Fritz Haber. This was a moment when human cruelty was on trial. So, he starts experimenting. I'm about to help this quest for knowledge. And also a scientist. If you breathed it in, it sort of irritates your lungs to the extent that they sort of fills up with fluid so quickly that you sort of drowning in your own phlegm. But I mean, he's up to 195 volts. And then the final one-. Read these words. In fact, his chemist had given this particular pesticide a smell. Really, that story has been told a million and one times for the last 50 years. That's my opinion that's where I'm going to stand on it. But as far as I know, there are none for Radiolab.I think I once read a statement from Jad and/or Robert that they view the show as an audio experience, and so believe it can't be captured in a transcript. Alex Haslem, Professor of Psychology at the University of Exeter. Yeah let's . Would you really think that this guy's a good guy? And if they didn't go on, if they resisted [crosstalk 00:18:11] the experimenter would break out prod number two. A lot of them are really positive even though they've just been told that they were duped. Even now. Then suddenly the thought occurred to me that my life would be much happier without him in existence.". Radiolab is supported by Audible. They start disagreeing with each other. It is still trotted out to explain everything from hazing to war crimes. Although, clearly on some level they know it isn't. My name's Benjamin Walker and here are some RadioLab credits. Well I can use that same process-. That's Stanley Milgram talking about the experiment in a film. When I picked them up, I was going to kill them." That afternoon, he gets in his car, goes home, he finds my mom on the deck, sits down next to her. And almost like blaming the victims. And he is basically homeless at this point. Meaning, any idea what was in his mind? And then, realized that he had to leave the house or he was going to do damage to her. Like, maybe he thinks Othello is sleeping with his wife, we're not sure. I'm going to resign.". And in the trial, when the prosecutors essentially ask him, "How you came to commit genocide?" Uh, we ask "Who did you think about killing?" The questionnaires they filled out are part of the Milgram archive at Yale. Let's begin with this story from our producer, Pat Walters. The whole thing happened serveral years ago. And so Satan, basically, systematically destroys Job's life. The time now is 0836 hours. We want what Elizabethan's got at the scaffold, which was a confession. And then, Othello goes and kills his own wife, smothering her with a pillow. Haber finds himself in a little town in Belgium called Yp-. God, I feel like we haven't, you and I sat together and said our names in quite some time. In the other room, there was a guy who he called the learner who is supposed to have memorized some words. They're engaged with the task. Now what you need to understand about Alex Haslam is that he hates it when interviewers only want to talk about the baseline study. Okay, one of those very tiny old fashioned pair of glasses that would pinch on your nose. Why did you take these women off the streets and wanted to destroy them? Now that's important, it's very important. That's it? And they go, "Why?" More information about Sloan at www.sloan.org. In fact, we hate being told, but we will do it on our own if we think it's good. And at the very end of the play when everyone finds out what Iago's done, Othello asks him, "Why? Of course, normally you just have one experimenter who's giving you these instructions. Would you really? We ask deep questions and use investigative journalism to get the answers. And she takes a service revolver-. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience. Radiolab is supported by Casper. If the experiment- if the experiment had to be successful, it had to be carried on.". Who they would kill, where they'd do it, when. Now you're saying actually that you could read that, that very dark fact, as being actually evidence of something quite- quite noble. Yellow mucus was frothing out of their mouths. Well all right, I'm starting to feel a little bit better about my fellow man. He figures out a way to take a lot of air that's filled with these little nitrogen bonds clinging to each other and pump it to a big iron tank. Robert Krulwich: Uh, wait. Oft have I digged up dead men from their graves and set them upright at their dear friend's door. You know what's going to happen if she pisses you off. We, as onlookers to this study, we have this kind of godlike sort of vision of like, "Well, of course, what they're doing is wrong." And invited me over. TRANSCRIPTS We are working to provide transcripts for as much of our programming as we can over. The Blank Slate follows one of the world's leading experts on language and the mind as he explores the idea of human nature and its moral emotional and political coverings. Can we really know that? ", In Titus Andronicus, there's a character by the name of Aaron the Moor-, And there's a moment in the play where Aaron gets up on stage, looks at the audience and says, "Let me just tell you the kinds of things I've been up to recently.". It is still trotted out to explain everything from hazing to war crimes. No. It just that-, Yeah. This is how it describes what it does: 'Radiolab believes your ears are a portal to another world. I got to tell you, um, I'm not totally comfortable that you are providing all the information about-. Uh, it makes up four out of every five or so molecules that we breathe. So, Sam what happened to this guy after World War I? But if they were prepared to do that, when I suspect a lot of them would, then we'd say, "These are people who really believe in science, and isn't this a good thing that we have people in our society, who are willing to make sacrifices-. And in this one you get 0% going all the way. I think you got to answer it, "With him." And I used to socialize with him and his wife. And he was wearing a fur coat-. And one of the first acts that the Nazis do is to basically issue an order that says there shall be no Jews in the civil service. "Well, why can't you deal with it in a normal way?" So, every day they would bring him into this conference room. Very distinctive looking man, bald on top, trim nice mustache, wore a little [pince-nez 00:28:20]. So Stanley Milgram actually begins these experiments the same year that Adolf Eichmann goes on trial for Nazi war crimes. Now there's a footnote to this that is very strange. So, he ends up admitting it. The time now is 08:36 hours. One of those very tiny, old fashioned, uh, pair of glasses that would pinch on your nose. That's radio producer Ben Walker. You know, this was like oil is today. Uh, he's a master plotter. You're not the first one. You know what's going to happen if she [inaudible 01:02:25]. He's a man adrift. So basically, at 6 p.m. on April 22nd-. I mean, it's a pretty big thing to miss. And this is necessary in order to advance our noble cause.". ", Um, but Haber just kind of ignored her and-, He actually threw a dinner party in celebration-. "When I picked them up I was going to kill them." Well,the experiment requires that you continue. So, you know, around this point, I just don't want to have anything to do with this guy. It is a, the- the critical- the critical force prod. The fact that he kept on doing it over and over and over again was like, "Come on.". And when nitrogen and hydrogen bond together, the thing you get-. So, he decided he was going to invent a process to pay for these reparations by himself and what he decided to do is go into the ocean, into seawater, which contains, um, uh, some very small levels of gold. It's all right. And he says, "Because of the rage." I don't know that you could entirely call him bad, I might even tilt towards saying he's a little good, to be honest. And on June 13th, 2003, Gary was secretly taken out of his jail cell and brought to this sort of very nondescript concrete ugly office building and, um, over the next six months from June to early December. So, go to audible.com/radiolab or text Radiolab to 500500 for a free 30 day trial and a few audiobook. And it's just sort of approaching. And, you know, the class ended and I went back to my office. We don't exactly know why. I'm gonna-. And this is was the difference between Kaiser Wilhelm and, of course, Hitler's Germany. 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