I got to tell you, um, I'm not totally comfortable that you are providing all the information about-. And then, in experiment number four, when the teacher has to hold the learner's hand down-. Radiolab: Lucy. A lot of them are really positive even though they've just been told that they were duped. You know, just because of a mathematical summing up. He buried them, or left their bodies in these little clumps in the woods-. And 91% of the men said yes. Wasn't satisfied [inaudible 01:01:21] maybe mad 'cause she was very much in a hurry. Who's going to do this powerful piece of science. This actually brings us to the first topic of the hour, so let me Just to set it up. Radiolab for Kids Presents: Terrestrials A show where we uncover the strangeness right here on Earth Romeo y Julieta A World Premiere Bilingual Audio Play. A hero. And he said, to start, "You want to know about bad? Uh, generates electric shocks. This was a moment when human cruelty was on trial, quite literally. More information about Sloan at www.sloan.org. "The experiment requires that you continue.". Cruelty, violence, badness in this episode we begin with a chilling statistic: 91% of men, and 84% of women, have fantasized about killing someone. Um, with a black belt in karate. Okay. That is true. 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. All rights reserved. I actually did the first thing, but he saw my intentions and ran away." Well, all right. But that's not what he found. The show is nationally syndicated and is available as a podcast. He goes straight to the German [inaudible 00:36:56] and- and he pitches this idea. This is basically what Stanley Milgram set out to test. The fact that he kept on doing it over and over and over again was like, "Come on.". Radiolab is supported by Audible. Imagine they really had to administer shocks to themselves or something. He won't answer. His wife, um, went into hiding. Radiolab is supported by Casper. And you tell us, "Actually, no. And if they still were resisting or struggling, they'd get proud number three. And give up the few details that they really needed to link him certifiably to all his crimes. A lot of them are like, "This is not how you fight a war.". We'll basically bring it to the front, and when the wind is right, we'll just spray it. He had an experimenter who wasn't a scientist, but was a member of the general public. [inaudible 00:59:22] it's building up [inaudible 00:59:24]. No. With higher and higher voltage. My name's Benjamin Walker and here are some RadioLab credits. His health is failing in 1934. Sort of unsportsmanlike. 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. You know, he does it without humility, without- without a lot of doubt. It's about 1880. And, um, in January of 1984, the Green River task force was formed. Radiolab is supported, in part, by the National Science Foundation, and by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, enhancing public understanding of science, technology in the modern world. Okay. 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. They're going to record it okay. And my father wasn't buying it. I mean-. To the best of your memory, which word was matched with nice? Every time that guy got the word wrong. And he spent five years in a futile effort to distill gold from the ocean's waters. Clara, also from Breslau, also from a Jewish family. The thing is that I do have a new boyfriend, but my ex boyfriend doesn't know that- that yet, and I'm terrified that he'll do what he says. He said, "Look, this is what you're going to do is of course you don't want to do this. The experiment requires that we continue. And it's kind of surprising, a lot of them are really positive, even though they've just been told that they were duped. 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; well, you can see that's a good thing. In 1962, Stanley Milgram shocked the world with his study on obedience. Warning. But what you're doing is for the good of Germany, and this is necessary in order to advance our noble cause.". To feed about 30 million people. Look. There's- there's a lot of-. And he ran them through something like what you and I just did. But there's a fellow. And he is celebrated for it. Thanks to all our great storytellers. Trim, nice mustache. Have you ever thought about killing someone? All right. Yeah, I carried your oxygen and you walked beside me through the lobby commenting on the decor. And the infinity of gray spaces in between. Let's go into our instructions. Because Haber figured out a way to take nitrogen from the air, put it into the barren ground and grew wheat. His calculations showed that it couldn't be done. This is Radiolab and today we're talking about Well, we're trying to think about what goes on in the mind of a bad person. She was actually, uh, sort of a genius herself. Maria Matasar-Padilla is our managing director. Podcasts; . This is sort of chilling comparison, which is a speed that Himmler gave to the SS, some SS leaders, when they were, uh, about to commit a range of atrocities. The killer seemed to have placed the bodies as if they were mannequins. And so, Satan basically systematically destroys Job's life, takes away his wife, his children, all his material possessions. And every scenario produced a different result. "Do you think that more studies of this sort should be carried out?" I mean, you know, it's just one of those things we've been bringing back shows that we think are just vibrating still in the world. But in a famous incident, one of England's leading scientists refuses to shake his hand. I don't know, I would rather have scientists who carry doubt with them as they proceed, I-. That's my opinion that's where I'm going to stand on it. "Why did you inflict all this suffering on them, on us? And that's all the difference in the world. [inaudible 00:21:03] just cut it out. All right. He had women participants. Within minutes, the gas reached the allied side. We thought that maybe as- as we turn a corner ourselves, we should refresh. Milgram staged the whole thing like it was some experiment about memory and punishment, but of course it wasn't about that. The authoritative record of New York Public Radio's programming is the audio record. The good Iago who makes you want to shower the minute you leave the theater 'cause you are sullied by him. Thousands of people have done it before you. And especially humiliated over the fact that they had to pay enormous war reparations to other countries. Become A Member. You're cut down before then. Like, how do you tell the real baddies from the rest of us? I left him, went home. Yeah. It's a good one. Gary says, "I needed to kill." So Stanley Milgram actually begins these experiments-. And they go, "Why?" Bonobos. ", Yeah, we just need a whole lot more of one simple-. Pat, go ahead. If any sizable fraction actually acted on their homicidal fantasies, the streets would be running red. But he does it with a kind of amoral athleticism, he does it without humility, without a lot of doubt. Listen Now. Yeah. He didn't really want to cop to everything that he did. How many of them went into that kind of detail? I would say in a powerful mood; we're close to some really fundamental truths about human nature. Before the guy is cut to shreds, he's allowed to confess, "I heartily regret the fact that I killed the young maiden or defamed the king." When you call someone, "Evil." And every time that guy got a word wrong-. All right, so I'm going to talk to you over this intercom, okay? And then he starts this period of roaming. And even when they do say, "Yes." He brings her up as an example of a woman that he actually had strong feelings for. And I used to socialize with him and his wife. And you like her. We were just enacting an old very famous experiment you may have heard about. September 15, 2022 Radiolab for Kids and WNYC Studios present Terrestrials, a six-episode miniseries hosted by Lulu Miller (co-host of Radiolab . I'm gonna-. I got it in front of me, I've just got the data from the Milgram study. Radiolab - Transcripts Subscribe 187 episodes Radiolab is on a curiosity bender. James Shapiro, professor of English at Columbia University. And I devoted one class session to the topic of homicide and why people kill. Because you are sullied by them. So read these words that you see here. And the, uh, really, really bad that is in, uh, some of us. When we asked how close she came to killing him, she estimated 60 percent. They reach back to the shelf and they find this zyklon stuff. In Seattle today a man called the Green River killer-. To find page after page of yeses. Thanks. 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. When I said, "Goodbye." It was about how far would these people go? This is Jeff Jensen and he's a reporter in LA. That I remember picking her up and-. So you ask like, "Why do people do bad things?". 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 us.and the little bit of really, _really _bad that's in some of us. There's a pause and my father just says-. It was a warning smell so that people didn't inadvertently breathe it in and get sick. For much the same reasons. Mm-hmm (affirmative). I'm going to give you a little, uh (laughing). They've got a- a very plausible, very credible high status scientist at a high status scientific institution. The same year that Adolf Eichmann goes on trial for Nazi war crimes. Bread from the air was the phrase 'cause Haber had figured out a way to take nitrogen from the air, put it into the barren ground, and grow wheat. Hi, I'm Robert Krulwich. But what if something's happened to the man. Wasn't satisfying me, it made me mad that she was very much in a hurry, she had something else on her mind, and I killed her. We want what Elizabethan's got at the scaffold, which was a confession. This is Jeff Jensen, and he's a reporter in LA. Fritz Haber's a professor, small university. They're trying to be good participants. Up until that point, Gary refused to say, "That from the minute I picked these women up, I wanted to kill them." Something's happening to that man in there. 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." Was it nice day, nice sky, nice job, or nice chair? "The experiment requires that you continue.". Although, I don't know if that's the right word for this next thing 'cause it's sort of more complicated. And 84 percent of the women. With higher and higher voltage. So, he plans to destroy Othello. And he hasn't talked about it with anyone until I interviewed him for the book. According to some accounts, as they crept across no man's land. What makes boys boys and girls girls. And they're saying, "Have you checked out Job? I think I call it [prince-nez 00:28:23], so I'm not sure. Thank you to James Shapiro whose most recent book is called Contested Will. But it wasn't until a few years later that he learned something that really put what happened that night into context. Three times a year, two times before-. Okay, so I heard this one from this guy named David-. Yeah. You're not the first one. Yeah (laughs). It comes to us from our reporter, Aaron Scott. And you know there's nothing a closet full of clothes to help balance that out. Stanley Milgram took electric shock very seriously. A lot of WNYC podcasts do transcripts-- I know On the Media does. ", Meanwhile, later that night on the other side of town-. No motives. But in all of these other scenarios, they don't. comment. Give me two more minutes. Thanks also to reporter Aaron Scott for that story. And, uh, she had got a disgusted look on her face and said that he was up in the bedroom. We're going off tape now. Right. But the generals were not all that convinced? So I'm just going to go into this other room over here. Um, we lived together for a couple months. And he says that's what people wanted. Because it's like we started with this experiment that we all see as evidence of humans' latent capacity for evil. Sixty-five percent-, To shock their fellow citizens, over and over again-. And they're both secularized Jews. It comes to us from our reporter, Aaron Scott. He recruited a bunch of subjects. And he says, "Because of the rage." So around the turn of the century for German scientists like Haber, this was the challenge. Support Radiolab today atRadiolab.org/donate. Now the volunteer couldn't see the guy he was shocking, but he could definitely hear him. 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 us.and the little bit of really, really bad that's in some of us. Science. Just because of a mathematical summing up. Okay, well actually the one thing that the study really doesn't show is that people obey orders. You know, "I just want to kill her. Jeff Jensen's book is the Green River Killer: A True Detective Story. Each answer just begs another why. They spent the next six months interrogating him, they brought in psychiatrists, and forensic psychologists to try to get an answer. No one has a monopoly on bad. It was developed in his institute. No 'cause if you couldn't afford a ticket for a play, you'd seen all the plays, in the 1500s you could always go to a public hanging. That's where they're heading towards. New York Public Radio transcripts are created on a rush deadline, often by contractors. I'll give you bad. These little nitrogen atoms will fiercely hold together, and it's almost impossible to pry them apart. even past when they were screaming in pain. And when you stick a seed like weed seed in the ground-. And why is it so important, do you think, to understand the why behind such an evil act? [1] Radiolab was founded by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich in 2002. Leaving his son alone with his dead mother. This was one of the bloodiest arenas on the, uh, Western front. Just push the button that corresponds to the right word. So, you ask like, why do people do bad things? It's called Too Much Information. But if looked at from another perspective, there's a sense in which you could celebrate what they're doing. We will begin with this test-. Said, "Deadly enmity between two friends make poor men's cattle break their necks, set fire on barns, and haystacks in the night, and bid the owners quench them with their tears. They reached back to the shelf and they find this Zyklon stuff. "I just needed to kill because of that." This is Radiolab. That's it? We should say that this next section of the program has some references which are extremely graphic and not to everybody's tastes. RadioLab is supported, in part, by the National Science Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. And he throws himself in one of the central issues facing Germany that at that time. The authoritative record of New York Public Radios programming is the audio record. Like, "Oh my God. David had always known this guy to be pretty mild mannered. No, because if you couldn't afford a ticket for a play, you'd seen all the plays, in the 1500s, you could always go to a public hanging. A given episode might whirl you through science, legal history, and into the home of someone halfway across the world. Walk- walk away. They couldn't deploy it, they couldn't deploy it. And to make the problem even more annoying. I think they have to be extreme in the extreme. And I designed a little questionnaire where I simply asked the students, "Have you ever thought about killing someone?" In 1962 Stanley Milgram shocked the world with his study on obedience. And so when I went to the party, the party was already in full swing when I got there. Then, we reconsider what Stanley Milgram's famous experiment really revealed about human nature (it's both better and worse than we thought). Yeah. Yes. His calculation showed that it couldn't be done. And- and Iago? But we thought we would- we would play this show, uh, about a little bit of bad that is in all of us. When you press one of these switches all the way down, the learner gets a shock. His was the first generation when a young Jewish boy could truly imagine that he could just be a regular part of that society. The time now is 0836 hours. But the weird thing is that he decides not just to take down Othello, but everybody. Terms and conditions apply. Visit our website. But we will do it on our own if we think it's good.". Just a little glimmer. Just push the button that corresponds to the right word. And to this day they have not talked about that day. The Germans on one side, the French, the Canadians and the British on the other. And you have a number of chemical reactions. You know, this was like oil is today. 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.". Why did you take these women off the streets and wanted to destroy them? Although once again we're getting a little ahead of ourselves. The questionnaires they filled out are part of the Milgram archive at Yale. And one evening, they were throwing a party and invited me over. Is an absolute order. And-. I mean, I'm going to record it here too. Right? Well, we'll have to discontinue the experiment then. And 84% of the women. And I was just astonished-. In the best of your memory, which word was matched with nice? You mean they're looking at 20 million people going hungry? So, around the turn of the century for German scientists like Haber, this was the challenge. Did members of Haber's family die in the concentration camps? That was not a real shock. He would dance around things. Thanks to all our great storytellers, Dan Charles, Sam Kean, Latif Nassar, Fred Kaufman, and Fritz Stern. And as soon as it did, soldiers began to convulse. And my father was recruited to the task force. So, as we begin this episode of the Bad Show, check out The Blank Slate by Steven Pinkner, one of the world's leading experts on language and the mind. And there behind the German lines is-. And it's a craft, but it's a craft with consequences, and to approach it with kind of crazy joy? 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. Terms and conditions apply. I do have a choice. Well, that's because you- be-because Molly's been in the chair. Yeah, I agree with that. If those two participants refused to go on-, Saying like, "I don't want to kill a guy. I'm not going to give you what you want. Dylan Keith is our director of sound design. And then, he starts this period of roaming. "This was a moment in German history," he says, "When Jews had a decent amount of freedom.". He refuses what we fully expect and what everybody on stage at that moment fully expects from him. In graphic detail. Visit our website. His was the first generation when a young Jewish boy could truly imagine that he could just be a regular part of that society, he could do anything. I got to tell you, I'm not totally comfortable that you're providing all of the information [inaudible 00:57:52]-. Now the volunteer couldn't see the guy he was shocking, but he'd definitely hear him. Our food source then moves into our bodies. You know, he's a man adrift. Yeah, me too. But in a us sort of way. The story of Job is that one day God and Satan are having a conversation, and they're saying, "Have you checked out Job? And she takes a service revolver-. He eventually goes to England-. So, he ends up admitting it. Now, why don't you just- what do you remember since we last talked in this interview? This is Radiolab and today we're going to get bad. And then, and- So, he says that and you're like, "Okay. And my dad said, "I don't want to talk about it." Year 2003. He stirs up hatred between friends, between lovers. You know, uh, "I'm going to kill her.". It just that-, Yeah. Whether it was feeding, or killing, or-, And he does. "This was exactly what was in my mind. We were just enacting an old, very famous experiment that you may have heard about. He's such a puzzle to me. She says, "What happened today?" And they're behind the German lines is-. Yet you go into this [inaudible 01:02:33] knowing full well that it could end up in her death. I'm not going to help restore the sense that there is a moral order to the world and a moral norm. They will spare his son if he fesses up and- and tells them what they need to know. And we didn't really come to any kind of agreement with the Haber thing. They've got a very plausible, very credible, high status scientist at high status scientific institution. A box of ashes. He was trying to repeat this master stroke. Just to back up for one second. Hey this is Jad, RadioLab is supported by IBM. So, Jeff wrote this book because his father, Tom Jensen, was one of the lead detectives tracking Gary Ridgeway. Let me- let me jump just, uh, a quote in front of me. Of course normally just have one experimenter who's giving you these instructions. And according to some accounts, as it crept across no man's land-. So, they sit down in the chair thinking, "Wow. On the other hand, if anyone can do it-. We're going to meet her later. What's the noble cause in this case? 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