And did you go back to the party then and continued dinner partying for a while? Oft have I digged up dead men from their graves and sit them up right at the dear friend's door. Does everybody, at some point, have something dark in them that just tiptoes out, from time to time? And it's moving at about one meter per second. You better check in on him sir. So you ask like, "Why do people do bad things?". But in a famous incident, one of England's leading scientists refuses to shake his hand. He knew about it. You can see this in the surveys that the men filled out after the experiments were over. I do not stand alone. And every time that guy got a word wrong-. Can we really know that? Then he left some space at the bottom for them to elaborate if they said yes. Does he- is he saying what I think he's saying? Maybe it's all about doubt in the end. They're going to record it okay. Like, maybe he thinks Othello is sleeping with his wife, we're not sure. Is there a way to explain why some people act the way they do and others don't?". My name's Benjamin Walker and here are some RadioLab credits. You're going to keep giving him what, 450 volts every shot now? [inaudible 00:59:10] I went back one time before and [inaudible 00:59:13] that I Like I said, I got to give it out, can't keep holding it in. Why did you inflict on this suffering on them, on us? So Stanley Milgram actually begins these experiments the same year that Adolf Eichmann goes on trial for Nazi war crimes. As far as I know, I don't know if I did or not. You're not the first one. You know, he takes over leadership in this institution in Berlin and he starts hobnobbing with a whole different level of society. Now, we're seeing about a 100 million tons of synthetic fertilizer produced industrially each year and that tonnages then moves into our food source. He's working with chemicals. And he is basically homeless at this point. I'm starting to feel a little bit better about my fellow man. I knew what he was capable of, so I suggested that we go out for a walk and I, basically, spent the next half hour walking around with him trying to cool him off. "You know, you're not the first person that's ever done this.". But when he gets there, he has to contend with his wife. Visit our website terms of use at www.wnyc.org for further information. This is Everybody was desperate for sources, new sources of nitrogen. 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 with big iron tank. Visit our website terms of use at www.wnyc.org for further information. He didn't really want to cop to everything that he did. The thing is that I do have a new boyfriend, but my ex-boyfriend doesn't know that yet, and I'm terrified that he'll do what he says. Yet you go into this anyway, knowing full well that it could-, "That is true. So there's a way in which there's a touch of spark of humanity. And if they didn't go on, if they resisted, the experimenter would break out prod number two. You're going to keep giving what? The expectation is somebody is made to make his peace with his maker before he dies; that's what you do. Yes 80 percent of the air is nitrogen atoms. And in the other room, there was a guy, who he called the learner, who was supposed to have memorized some words. And what happens is that you're- you're elbowing the nit- nitrogen apart from itself and then, forcing it to bond with a hydrogen in a new way. 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. I mean-. You know, this was like oil is today. Why did you do this?" Nitrogen is an essential part of amino acids and proteins. Equal Housing lender licensed in all 50 states. And-. 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. But he organizes soldiers, he organizes whole gas units. Yeah. Even now. That's radio producer Ben Walker, he'll be our guide for this segment. She just burst my eardrums (laughs). And then, it was several hours later in the middle of the night that I got the call. And invited me over. Okay. You know what's going to happen if she pisses you off. But as the play goes on, you begin to think that maybe that's just another lie. The most common source of nitrogen is in the air around us. And he did too. You know, he does it without humility, without- without a lot of doubt. I have a choice, I'm not going to go ahead with it. Well, all right. And 91 percent of the men said, "Yes." You know, what does he say? Okay, so I heard this one from this guy named David-. Well I mean, I know it does, sir. We will begin with this test. Anytime the experimenter said, "You must continue." Listen to free wherever you go to podcast and sign up at openearsproject.org. Yellow mucus was frothing out of their mouths. In fact, his chemist had given this particular pesticide a smell. [inaudible 00:06:31], Well not horrified, it was I pretty stunned. Two more minutes. But in a us sort of way. We're all great apes. Thanks also to reporter Aaron Scott for that story. But 75% of the people who worked for him at the institute, they were Jewish. Been through this a lot of times before, and she's already told you she's in a hurry. Radiolab is supported in part by the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P Sloan Foundation. In December of 2001, my father and his colleagues, uh, made the arrest. Probably have, but in case you haven't. And it's just sort of approaching. And not just yeses. "The experiment requires that you continue.". We ask deep questions and use investigative journalism to get the answers. I would rather have scientists who carry doubt with them as they proceed. All right. A lot of people were beginning to worry that with about a billion and a half people in the planet at that point, that maybe we were maxing out. Despite the chlorine gas. And this particular story, it comes from a book that David wrote. Go to audible.com/radiolab or text Radiolab to 500500 for a free 30-day trial and a few audiobook. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. This is just a tsunami of evil-, And at the very end of the play, when everyone finds out what Iago's done, Othello asks him, "Why? And then, he starts this period of roaming. He is a soldier. Um, we lived together for a couple months. And you like her. I actually did the first thing, but he saw my intentions and ran away." 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. But if you think that's the right thing. His experiment remains one of the most famous experiments of the 20th century. What you know-". Right. And when hydrogen and nitrogen bond together, the thing you get-. They're not doing something because they have to, they're doing it because they think they ought to. This has allowed the world to have 7 billion people. He figured maybe 1% of these men would keep flicking these switches up to the highest voltage, but that's not what he found. It just that-, Yeah. I don't know, I would rather have scientists who carry doubt with them as they proceed, I-. And in the trial, when the prosecutors essentially ask him, "How you came to commit genocide?" In other words, nitrogen has really strong attachments to itself. So, every day they would bring him into this conference room. Is that nitrogen is [tryvalent 00:31:48]. And then Othello goes and kills his own wife, smothering hew with a pillow. No one has a monopoly on bad. To feed about 30 million people. And maybe forces hydrogen in the tank. It is a fair question to ask what are the conditions under which you or me or any of us could do-. How many times would they shock that sad-. 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. Gary says, "I needed to kill." 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." Let's expect more from technology, let's put smart to work, visit ibm.com/smart to learn more. He was doing his great science work right around the turn of the 20th century; so right around 1900. And it's kind of surprising, a lot of them are really positive, even though they've just been told that they were duped. They start disagreeing with each other, and this one you get zero percent going all the way. Robert Krulwich: Uh, wait. And, like, it kind of, like, hurt his feelings. 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. Gary is dancing around this topic, Gary had denied this to his own lawyers. And that was a question that had haunted my father for decades. And you know there's nothing a closet full of clothes to help balance that out. So around the turn of the century for German scientists like Haber, this was the challenge. He's bald, he has a potbelly, he has these pince-nez spectacles, he's chomping on a Virginian cigar, he was always smoking these Virginian cigars and he's wearing a fur coat. Every time that guy got the word wrong. This actually brings us to our first top of the hour, so just to set it up, Robert, I'm going to give you this piece of paper here. Clara, also from Breslau, also from a Jewish family. How could you? Hi I'm Robert Krulwich. He'll be our guide for the segment. Y-P-R-E-S. Actually, the Americans called it Yeeps. The killer seemed to have placed the bodies as if they were mannequins. I'm Jad Abumrad. Humans. So he decided he was going to invent a process to pay for these reparations by himself. And even though in the end they got him to confess to these 49 murders, they never really get any closer to an answer than this first why. (laughs). Cruelty, violence, badness in this episode we begin with a chilling statistic: 91% of men, and 84% of women, have fantasized about killing someone. It's a pretty big thing to miss (laughs) isn't it? You can find out more information about all those guys on our website, radiolab.org. She expressed disapproval about his clothing choices. (beep) God. Get $50 towards select mattresses by visiting casper.com/radiolab and using code radiolab at checkout. As we continue listening to the Bad Show on human nature in our neighbors and ourselves, check out the Wave, which we mirrors the natural shape of your body, or the Casper mattress with zone support for your hips and shoulders for better alignment. "This was exactly what was on my mind. Yeah, I carried your oxygen and you walked beside me through the lobby commenting on the decor. And you have a number of chemical reactions. I'll go along with this.". Like, saying like, "I don't want to kill a guy.". I just needed to kill her." And in January of 1984, the Green River Task Force was formed, and my father was recruited to the task force. 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. Only 10% under those circumstances go on. In 1962 Stanley Milgram shocked the world with his study on obedience. You know, you're not the first person that's ever done this. Transcript. Is that- is that nitrogen is trivalent. You literally get a drip, drip, drip, of ammonia. Bonobos. My students are murderers.". And they're behind the German lines is-. And I- I killed her. But the weird thing is that he decides not just to take down Othello, but everybody. Even when their sorrows almost were forgot, and on their skins is on the bark of trees, have written my life with my knife carved in Roman letters. They start disagreeing with each other. He ultimately spent 17 years searching for this man. This you and this two other participants. He's such a puzzle to me. I'll give you bad. Hey this is Jad, RadioLab is supported by IBM. That's Fritz Haber's wife. Thousands of people have done it before you. "Well, why can't you deal with it in a normal way?" And he said, "Look, this is what you're going to do is Of course, you don't want to do this. Uh, and he finds her actually still alive with her life running out of her. Terms and conditions apply. Yes, and he did too. So he starts experimenting. Uh, she, uh, expressed disapproval about his, um, clothing choices. And so, Gary starts going through this narrative of what he did to Carol. This is Radiolab and today we're going to get bad. He would dance around things. Because actually, he studied between 20 and 40 different variants of this same paradigm. I think I call it pince-nez, so I'm not sure. The Bad Show. It's absolutely essential that you continue. And the, uh, really, really bad that is in, uh, some of us. I'm Robert Krulwich. That one simple, "Why?" And Hitler takes over. Well, that's because you- be-because Molly's been in the chair. Robert, I'm going to give you this piece of paper here. You know, solar energy from the sun to grow crops. And 84% of the women. Thousands of people have done it before you. Shoots herself in the chest. I think they have to be extreme in the extreme. 'cause actually he studied between 20 and 40 different variants of this same paradigm. And he goes home for a few days a hero. I actually did the first thing, but he saw my intentions and ran away." Well he started fuming that his wife had dissed him, and-. Terms and conditions apply. It was a warning smell so that people didn't inadvertently breathe it in and get sick. So I'm just going to go into this other room over here. I think you got to answer it, "With him." Thanks to all our great storytellers. And he says, "Because of the rage." The participants, you know, they're not- it's not- it's not just blind obedience. I'm going to take a break. Bald on top. You know, uh, "I'm going to kill her.". That is captured the nitrogen right out of the air. How many times would they shock that sad-. Then, we reconsider what Stanley Milgram's famous experiment really revealed about human nature (it's both better and worse than we thought). Big questions are investigated . And not just yeses. And there is no doubt that today's plants and animals carry the genetic legacy of ancestors who fought fiercely to survive and reproduce. About; Blog; Projects; Help; Donate An illustration of a heart shape . At high temperature. Cruelty, violence, badness. Speaking with Carol's mom, Carol's little daughter-, Killed her. The whole thing happened several years ago. I'm not going to help restore the sense that there is a moral order to the world and a moral norm. And I used to socialize with him and- and his wife. They spent the next six months interrogating him. Radiolab. This has allowed the world to have seven billion people. And this particular story, it comes from a book that David wrote. And according to some accounts, as it crept across no man's land-. Shoots herself in the chest, and is found by her son. ", Meanwhile, later that night on the other side of town-. In front of this really impressive looking machine. But what you're doing is for the good of Germany, and this is necessary in order to advance our noble cause.". If you think that science is worth pursuing, you say, "Okay. And we end with the story of a man who chased one of the most prolific serial killers in US history, then got a chance to ask him the question that had haunted him for years: why? She was actually a sort of a genius herself. She had something else on her mind. He's such a puzzle to me. It's okay to admit this. Despite the chlorine gas, he didn't intend for that to happen. And he wrote this graphic novel that I read about one of the most prolific serial killers in U.S. history; Gary Leon Ridgeway, the Green River Killer. Well what is something's happened, the man had an attack or something there? And, uh, I heard about him from science writer Sam Keen. When I stand before you, judges of Israel, in this court to accuse Adolf Eichmann. What does he say? And I used to socialize with him and his wife. You know, just because of a mathematical summing up. And, "Because women have stepped on me all my life." It is a fair question to ask, "What are the conditions under which you, or me, or any of us could do-. ", Now, Haber was Jewish, but because he'd served in World War I-, But 75 percent of the people who worked for him at the institute, they were Jewish-, And says, "This is intolerable. I'm not going to give you what you want. His calculation showed that it couldn't be done. But every time the experimenter pulled out the fourth prod, and this was confirmed when the experiment was redone in 2006, total disobedience. Visit rocketmortgage.com/radiolab. Yeah. But did it, publicly, in front of her friends. God, 'cause it's like we started with this experiment that we all see as evidence of human's latent capacity of evil. When we asked how close she came to killing him, she estimated 60 percent. In- in other words, nitrogen has really strong attachments to itself. If the experiment- if the experiment had to be successful, it had to be carried on.". He did this experiment a bunch of times in a bunch of different ways. Thanks. Read these words. This is basically what Stanley Milgram set out to test. I just needed to kill because of that. And he goes home for a few days. Literally disappeared for six months and didn't tell anyone where she was because she was terrified that he was going to kill her. A liquid. I- I- I- well (laughs). It's a pretty (bleep) thing to miss, isn't it really? And, um, in January of 1984, the Green River task force was formed. To him, he seemed calm and I left, and went home. There's something deeply, deeply wounding, stressing, upsetting at the thought that he had anything to do with zyklon B; but he did. Our staff includes Simon Adler, Maggie Bartholomew, Becca Bressler, Rachael Cusick, David Gebel, Ethel Hepti, Tracy Hunt, Matt Kielty, the lovely Robert Krulwich, Annie McEwen, Latif Nassar, Malissa O'Donnell, Adrian Wack, Pat Walters, and Molly Webster. Quite literally. I got to tell you, um, I'm not totally comfortable that you are providing all the information about-. He was in this, um, uh, uh, state of fury, he said, and, um, and instead of hitting his wife, he smashed his fist into the bathroom mirror. And I devoted one class session to the topic of homicide and why people kill. in what is basically like the Baghdad of his time (laughing). In a way we wait for it still. And what he means is that when nitrogen atoms are just free floating in the air, they will cling to each other. "I need to kill because of that." Now, of course you could find some nitrogen out in the world. That 's the right thing of homicide and why people kill. 's all doubt! 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