Radiolab Society & Culture Science Latest Transcripts Kittens Kick The Giggly Blue Robot All Summer 2.7K views over 2 years ago 41:58 With the recent passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, there's been a lot of debate about how much power the Supreme Court should really have. This episode was produced with help from Carter Hodge. He claimed they were in the middle of a sex act, he would get distracted, something would happen. That's historian, Fritz Stern, who also happens to be Fritz Haber's godson. And as he was in the kitchen, looking stupid, peeling the carrots to make salad, I came up to him laughingly, gently, so that he wouldn't suspect anything. And not just yeses. You- I mean, I'm not suggesting one should, but I'm just saying there is a sense in which these people are prepared to do something that's very painful to them and to someone else because they want to promote science. The participants that are there in this study-. My dad said, "I don't want to talk about it." A given episode might whirl you through science, legal history, and into the home of someone halfway across the world. Why did you do this?" Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience. On the other hand, if anyone could do it-. How many times would they shock that sad-. He believes in me and he trusts me and so much. 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. It has enough what they used to call then solar energy. A lot of them were like, "This is not how you fight a war.". "Research in any field is a must, particularly in this day and age." You can find out more information about all those guys on our website. But we ended up walking this question around different people-. He had an experimenter who wasn't a scientist, but was a member of the general public. What does it actually mean to be bad anyways? So, he starts experimenting. We begin with a chilling statistic: 91% of men, and 84% of women, have fantasized about killing someone. But he is a large, very strong man with a black belt in karate. They start disagreeing with each other. It's a little bit more direct. Stanley Milgram had four scripted prods that he wrote out for his experimenters for when the subjects didn't want to continue. When I stand before you, judges of Israel, in this court [Foreign 00:12:14] to accuse Adolf Eichmann [Foreign 00:12:18], I do not stand alone. Listen Now. But this was a moment in German history, he says, when Jews had a decent amount of freedom. And also, thank you to Alex Haslam, Professor of Psychology at the University of Exeter. Three times a year, two times before-. And, you know, the class ended and I went back to my office. With all of the black-and-white moralizing in our world today, we decided to bring back an old show about the little bit of bad that's in all of usand the little bit of really,reallybad that's in some of us. Let's begin with this story from our producer, Pat Walters. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. And not just yeses. Well, that's because you- be-because Molly's been in the chair. So Stanley Milgram actually begins these experiments the same year that Adolf Eichmann goes on trial for Nazi war crimes. He was t- very aggressive. Of course nobody wants to be killing other people. What my father and his colleagues know is that something was done to these bodies; many of them after they were murdered. Any time the experimenter said, "You must continue" the shocker would say, "Hell no, I don't.". At this point, David's moved onto a new university and he's teaching an introductory psychology class. Well, have you ever been blackmailed the way this woman was being blackmailed? Jeff Jensen's book is the Green River Killer: A True Detective Story. He is a soldier. He's a man adrift. Alex Haslam, professor of psychology at the University of Exeter. He recruited a bunch of subjects-. He brings her up as an example of a- of a woman that he actually had strong feelings for. Right. Okay. With a history of industry leading online lending technology developed in the heart of Detroit, Rocket Mortgage is changing the game. With help from Adam Cole, Rachel James, and Matt [Kielty 01:07:25]. That's correct. And says, "This is intolerable. Prince-nez? This is basically what Stanley Milgram set out to test. But in all of these other scenarios, they don't. He buried them, or left their bodies in these little clumps in the woods-. Just trying to imagine that. He's standing there on the front, pushing the gas into the lungs of other human beings, admittedly, it's a ware, but still. But he is a, uh, a large, very strong man. How do you tell the real baddies from the rest of us? So he sends a letter to the Ministry of Education resigning, and he leaves Germany. Yeah let's . In a lab at Yale University with a bunch of regular Americans. But the weird thing is that he decides not just to take down Othello, but everybody. Yes, it's awesome, thank you, Ben. And "Well, why the rage?" Cruelty, violence, badness. And we didn't really come to any kind of agreement with the Haber thing. That's what you do. Hey this is Jad, RadioLab is supported by IBM. 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. The good Iagos make you want to shower the minute you leave the theater. However, that leaves behind 20 million Germans. His wife went into hiding. Just because of a mathematical summing up. Then he goes and celebrates that, and then walks away from his child and his wife dead in the garden and says, "More of that please.". I mean it's a pretty heady thing for a Jewish kid from Breslau to be hobnobbing with the Emperor, and cabinet ministers, he's part of the club; and he really, really relished it. They've got a- a very plausible, very credible high status scientist at a high status scientific institution. We asked, "Who do you think about killing?" And this particular story, it comes from a book that David wrote. And I devoted one class session to the topic of homicide and why people kill. Prosecution, [crosstalk 00:12:03] the Attorney General. Suspected that it could be upwards of 75. Addeddate 2012-10-10 05:15:40 Boxid OL100020610 Identifier wnycs-radiolab_the-bad-show Add Review 4 Views DOWNLOAD OPTIONS 1 file ITEM TILE 4 Files 4 Original I'm going to take a break. With AI, blockchain, and quantum technology, IBM is developing smart, scalable technologies that help businesses work better together. It's the experimenter. Do you think that more studies of this sort should be carried out?" And then, it was several hours later in the middle of the night that I got the call. He could have never imagined that. And even when they do say, "Yes." Oh, that right there, slap some quotations around that. But even with all that gore and horribleness, there was often a moment that people waited for. "I'm willing to help in a worthwhile experiment.". It's a pretty (bleep) thing to miss, isn't it really? Wow. And this is the difference between Kaiser Wilhelm and of course Hitler's Germany. You wouldn't though, would you really? "Just wanted to kill them, I just needed to kill them." There's something deeply, deeply wounding, stressing, upsetting a thought that he had anything to do with Zyklon B, but he did. One of those very tiny, old fashioned, uh, pair of glasses that would pinch on your nose. In a way we wait for it still. Really, that story has been told a million and one times for the last 50 years. More information about Sloan at www.sloan.org. So, Jeff wrote this book because his father, Tom Jensen, was one of the lead detectives tracking Gary Ridgeway. Radiolab.org. You know, he's a man adrift. He didn't really want to cop to everything that he did. Um, we lived together for a couple months. Imagine they really were had to administer shocks to themselves or something. That's where they're heading towards. Haber's gas troops, unscrew, they open the valves on almost 6,000 tanks, containing 150 tons of chlorine. I invited him for dinner and as he was in the kitchen looking stupid peeling the carrots to make salad, I came up to him laughingly, gently so that he wouldn't suspect anything. That was just for those of you haven't heard it yet, this is a kind of a rush through a- through sex reproduction. This is Radiolab, and today we're going to get back, so to speak. But if you could somehow get a real Iago in the room, and subject that person to questioning, and really get them to sort of fess up as to why they did it, would that make a difference? in what is basically like the Baghdad of his time (laughing). Milgram staged the whole thing like it was some experiment about memory and punishment, but of course it wasn't about that. And every scenario produced a different result. Unusually so in those times. That he asked Gary, there was a lot of questions he was asking. Hi I'm Robert Krulwich. But if looked at from another perspective, there's a sense in which you could celebrate what they're doing. I got to tell you, I'm not totally comfortable that you're providing all of the information [inaudible 00:57:52]-. If this is the singular moment in Shakespeare where he gives you un-understandably evil man. We take a look at one particular fantasy lurking behind these numbers, and wonder what this shadow world might tell us about ourselves and our neighbors. Mm-hmm (affirmative). When you call someone, "Evil." And you find yourself in a situation where you've got to do something that's hard. Eugene [inaudible 01:07:32], Sierra Hahn, and everyone in the manuscript and archives department at the Yale University Library. I dated her several times a year. And now that we're sort of just on the other side of that. I'm not going to help restore the sense that there is a moral order to the world and a moral norm. Radiolab is supported by Casper. She was good to- she was good to me. And not to everybody's taste. But- but there's part of me that says, you know, here's a guy who just wanted to do everything better than had ever been done before. How could you? So, he plans to destroy Othello. He refuses what we fully expect and what everybody on stage at that moment fully expects from him. When you needed to stop for breath, your hand ran light and steady. There's a pause and my father just says. Stanley Milgram took electric shock very seriously. ", Um, but Haber just kind of ignored her and-, He actually threw a dinner party in celebration-. Our food source then moves into our bodies. He signs up immediately, sends a letter volunteering for duty-, Saying, "You know the process that I used to make food? Fritz Haber's a professor, small university. Podcasts; . Well all right, I'm starting to feel a little bit better about my fellow man. Next, we meet a man who scrambles our notions of good and evil: chemist Fritz Haber, who won a Nobel Prize in 1918around the same time officials in the US were calling him a war criminal. Members of his extended family did. Visit rocketmortgage.com/radiolab. The subjects of 40 males between the ages of 20 and 50. Well, I can use that same process to make explosives because the thing that you put into the ground to grow more food is also the thing you can explode to make a bomb.". Well he started fuming that his wife had dissed him, and-. This is Jeff Jensen, and he's a reporter in LA. Because if you ask university undergraduates, "What does the Milgram studies show?" He seemed calm. You know, "I- I- I Harley, you know, regret the fact that I killed a young maiden or defamed the king" or whatever it is. The story of Job is that one day God and Satan are having a conversation, and they're saying, "Have you checked out Job? A lot of them are like, "This is not how you fight a war.". 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. Now, as we sort of know in life, lots of things that we do, if they worthwhile doing, and not always easy. We didn't really come into any kind of agreement with the Haber thing. What makes boys boys and girls girls. And, you know, it's a craft, but it's a craft with consequences. I mean-, So again, the baseline study is the one where 65 percent of the volunteers-, But in experiment number three, if they put the shock-ee in the same room-, With the shocker so the shocker could actually see the person that he's shocking-. In fact, we hate being told, but we will do it on our own if we think it's good. "Well why can't you deal with it in a normal way?". More information about Sloan at www.sloan.org. New York Public Radio transcripts are created on a rush deadline, often by contractors. 1933 comes. What's the noble cause in this case? Jeff Jensen's book is The Green River Killer, A True Detective Story. Because Haber figured out a way to take nitrogen from the air, put it into the barren ground and grew wheat. And so, we've decided that it's time to go back to something we did once upon a time when we were wondering about good and bad. Right. Uh, generates electric shocks. It is, arguably, the most significant scientific breakthrough of them all. And actually this wasn't just a German thing, a lot of people were beginning to worry that with about a billion and a half people on the planet, at that point, that maybe we were maxing out, that the earth couldn't support this many people. Here's what he did. I actually did the first thing, but he saw my intentions and ran away." And I used to socialize with him and his wife. Obedience droops to about 40 percent [inaudible 00:15:40]. And you like her. They will invariably say something like, "They show that people obey orders." Would you really think that this guy's a good guy? I can't quite place him. It's like playing dirty. And this is necessary in order to advance our noble cause.". He even schemes against his own wife. Well what's the noble cause in this case? And on their skins, as on the bark of trees, have with my knife carved in Roman letters, 'Let not your sorrow die, though I am dead.'". Um, I got a little, uh, I- my- this is my dorsal hair stood up when I read the end of this. Although, I don't know if that's the right word for this next thing 'cause it's sort of more complicated. That allows an individual to act inhumanely? So, in the end where do you come down? So, here's the interesting thing. Yes. ", Yeah, we just need a whole lot more of one simple-. She was actually a sort of a genius herself. We take a look at one particular fantasy lurking behind these numbers, and wonder what this shadow world might tell us about ourselves and our neighbors. I really want to do a good job.". So, you don't know. Continue using the last switch on the board, please. Nice sky? Which is a fairly small-ish sort of town, and so does Clara. But if you look at Milgram's work closely. Yeah, necrophilia. We have nothing. And he ran them through something like what you and I just did. They spent the next six months interrogating him, they brought in psychiatrists, and forensic psychologists to try to get an answer. Did members of Haber's family die in the concentration camp? Time's up. Thousands of people have done it before you. And isn't this a good thing that we have people in our society who are willing to make sacrifices for a greater- the greater good? Come over now.". My students are murderers.". So, I heard this one from this guy named David-. Just a little glimmer. Been through this a lot of times before, and she's already told you she's in a hurry. You better check in on him sir. Yes, and he did too. Year 2003. Certainly friends of his did. Fact is if you don't continue, uh, we're going to discontinue the experiment. If any sizable fraction actually acted on their homicidal fantasies, the streets would be running red. 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