You know [crosstalk 00:25:00]. He buried them, or left their bodies in these little clumps in the woods-. This is just a tsunami of evil that passes through the play. But the generals were not all that convinced. But he does it with a kind of amoral athleticism, he does it without humility, without a lot of doubt. He works for a general. Sap in the next room just because they were being told to? Hi, my name is Josh, and I'm calling from Harlem, New York. Which is a- a fairly small, you know, a small sort of town. I- I know it was more than [inaudible 00:59:44]. Yes I did lie about that. And when hydrogen and nitrogen bond together, the thing you get-. Uh, generates electric shocks. And my father wasn't buying it. And then, and- So, he says that and you're like, "Okay. in this episode we begin with a chilling statistic: 91% of men, and . To find page after page of yeses. Our- our friend. connect it to this little electrode to your finger. To the best of your memory, which word was matched with nice? In that moment, my father, he stands up and he says. He had women participants. Listen Infective Heredity. I would rather have scientists who carry doubt with them as they proceed. And-. In Seattle today a man called the Green River killer-. But, you know, over the entire ocean there's a lot of gold dissolved into the sea. And he says, "Because of the rage." Well he started fuming that his wife had dissed him, and-. And my father wasn't buying it. Jul 28, 2018 The participants that are there in this study-. But when he gets there, he has to contend with his wife, Clara Immerwahr. He brings her up as an example of a woman that he actually had strong feelings for. Like, you can't throw that air onto a plant (laughing). Year 2003. The participants, you know, they're not- it's not- it's not just blind obedience. Yeah. We ask deep questions and use investigative journalism to get the answers. Right. Hi I'm Robert Krulwich. Under extreme, extreme pressure at high temperature, and then he forces hydrogen into the tank. Now there's a footnote to this that is very strange. You can find out more information about all those guys on our website. 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. And so Satan, basically, systematically destroys Job's life. Yeah. Time's up. I'm going to give you a little, uh (laughing). Yes. 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. Accuracy and availability may vary. It was developed in his institute. The Bad Show. And, uh, I heard about him from science writer Sam Keen. And then Othello goes and kills his own wife, smothering hew with a pillow. And in January of 1984, the Green River Task Force was formed, and my father was recruited to the task force. This is Radiolab, and today we're going to get back, so to speak. Cruelty, violence, badness. We should say that this next section of the program has some references which are extremely graphic and not to everybody's tastes. Because it takes such energy and pressure to separate it This trivalent bond is so strong that when it comes back together, that energy that's released, it could be used for life or death. That's one of the things that we- that we need to know. On the other hand, if anyone could do it-. This is what's driving the world towards 10, 12 by 2050. A given episode might whirl you through science, legal history, and into the home of. If those two participants refused to go on. So, he plans to destroy Othello. There's something deeply, deeply wounding, stressing, upsetting a thought that he had anything to do with Zyklon B, but he did. Maybe it's all about doubt in the end. And he is celebrated for it. Was he trying to make a commentary, and so was he grappling with something? And, "Because women have stepped on me all my life." As far as I know, I don't know if I did or not. And everyone thought, "Well, we know the solution. And it's a craft, but it's a craft with consequences, and to approach it with kind of crazy joy? They arrest Gary Le- Leon Ridgeway. But there's been a fellow, I've been thinking about him for the better part of year, as you know-. with the ideas that people would do bad if they think it's good, it's a good noble cause. Finally acknowledging, "Yeah, that's true." Is that nitrogen is [tryvalent 00:31:48]. Natural deposits would be like seaweed or-, You know, you could find it in cow manure or-. This has allowed the world to have seven billion people. 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. The experiment requires that we continue. So he starts experimenting. Gary had denied this to his own lawyers. In graphic detail. He even schemes against his own wife. I was just astonished. And did you go back to the party then and continue dinner partying for a while? A hero. 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. This has allowed the world to have 7 billion people. We've got to know now. In a lab at Yale University with a bunch of regular Americans. When you needed to stop for breath, your hand ran light and steady. It's absolutely essential that you continue. Okay. ", Yeah, so here's the interesting thing. You wouldn't though. And he ran them through something like what you and I just did. New York Public Radio transcripts are created on a rush deadline, often by contractors. Suddenly I'm thinking this is actually a darker interpretation-. Now that's important, it's very important. Go on please. A box of ashes. Well, you know, you can see that's a good thing. And when nitrogen and hydrogen bond together, the thing you get-. This episode was produced with help from Carter Hodge. They will invariably say something like, "They show that people obey orders." His wife, um, went into hiding. All right. His calculation showed that it couldn't be done. But I needed to kill her because of that. Yeah. I'm good. You know, he's a man adrift. Gary is dancing around this topic, Gary had denied this to his own lawyers. That he asked Gary, there was a lot of questions he was asking. No motives. As soon as it did, soldiers began to convulse. Alex Haslem, Professor of Psychology at the University of Exeter. It just that-, Yeah. For much the same reasons. Whether it was feeding or killing or-, And he does. 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-. One of the reasons it grows is because it's sucking up all the nitrogen in the soil. So Stanley Milgram actually begins these experiments the same year that Adolf Eichmann goes on trial for Nazi war crimes. And oddly enough, we got a really interesting take on the true nature of badness from this guy-. But every time the experimenter pulled out the fourth prod, and this was confirmed when the experiment was redone in 2006, total disobedience. Imagine they really were had to administer shocks to themselves or something. And even when they do say, "Yes." And I think what we want out of the why is meaning, meaning to life to reveal itself in a way that restores order and give us hope that all of this isn't just meaningless chaos. And then, it was several hours later in the middle of the night that I got the call. Yeah. Sixty-five percent-, To shock their fellow citizens, over and over again-. Like, is that something that's universal? Because it's like we started with this experiment that we all see as evidence of humans' latent capacity for evil. You wouldn't though, would you really? Now that's important. And I think what we want out of the why is meaning. You know, solar energy from the sun to grow crops. And, you know, the class ended and I went back to my office. Radiolab - Transcripts Subscribe 187 episodes Radiolab is on a curiosity bender. Investigating a strange world. What you know-". Which was sort of asking these questions like, "What makes a person inherently good or bad? Haber's gas troops, uh, un- unscrewed, they opened the valves on almost 6000 tanks containing a 150 tons of chlorine. And what makes a bad person so bad that he's different from the rest of us? The authoritative record of New York Public Radios programming is the audio record. If those two participants refused to go on-, Saying like, "I don't want to kill a guy. Up until that point, Gary refused to say that "From the minute I picked these women up I wanted to kill them." 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? And to this day they have not talked about that day. Time's up. Although once again we're getting a little ahead of ourselves. All rights reserved. What my father and his colleagues know is that something was done to these bodies; many of them after they were murdered. Chimps. Um, although there's some (laughs) [crosstalk 00:02:19]. Well if the idea is that people will do bad if they think it's good, if it's a good noble cause. And then, Othello goes and kills his own wife, smothering her with a pillow. He would give all his baddies at least one moment where they could be understood. I'll go along with this.". Who they would kill, where they'd do it, when. 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. He said that if I ever had a relationship with another man, he was going to send videos of us having sex to all the people in my university. You mean they're looking at 20 million people going hungry? But in a us sort of way. He felt publicly humiliated. Go. Well, Sam, what happened to this guy after World War I? And there is no doubt that today's plants and animals carry the genetic legacy of ancestors who fought fiercely to survive and reproduce. So around the turn of the century for German scientists like Haber, this was the challenge. "Research in any field is a must, particularly in this day and age." And there behind the German lines is-. And then, he seemed fine when I said goodbye to him. And this is necessary in order to advance our noble cause.". Dan doesn't think so, but what's clear is that he saw no reason to question what he had done and that infuriated Clara. He's bad. There's a sort of chilling comparison which is a speech that Himmler gave to some SS leaders when they were about to commit a range of atrocities. Haber finds himself in a little town in Belgium called Yp-. Right. The whole thing happened several years ago. Radiolab is supported by Audible. Well, I'd have to discontinue the experimenter then. And they're saying, "Have you checked out Job? I mean it's a fact, of course, that they're administering pain to a stranger, that's what's horrifying about it, but imagine they were administering pain to themselves. They've got a- a very plausible, very credible high status scientist at a high status scientific institution. He would have each subject sit down at a table. The use of it, he couldn't have imagined. Hi, I'm Robert Krulwich. Well, I mean, I know that sir, but I mean, he's up to a 195 volts. Yes, this is one of the things that sparked my interest in the topic of murder. I'm Robert Krulwich. In front of this really impressive looking machine. Can you hear me? [inaudible 00:06:31], Well not horrified, it was I pretty stunned. Then, we reconsider what Stanley Milgram's famous experiment really revealed about human nature (it's both better and worse than we thought). That's like an adult blue whale of chlorine. I'm [Clemmy Buttonhill 00:26:56], I'm here to tell you about the Open Airs Project, the new podcast form WNYC studios and WQXR, in which people share stories about the classical music that gets them through their lives. They spent the next six months interrogating him. I- horrified is- I was- I was pretty stunned. And says, "This is intolerable. 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. She was actually a sort of a genius herself. By the ocean of breath twice, I remember I carried your oxygen. When you call someone then you're kind of done with them. Right now get $50 towards select mattresses by visiting casper.com/radiolab and using Code Radiolab at checkout. Well, that's because you- be-because Molly's been in the chair. It immediately became apparent that there was going to be difficulties. He's bald. And I designed a little, um, questionnaire where I simply ask the students, you know, "Have you ever thought about killing someone?" There's you, and there's two other participants. The authoritative record of New York Public Radio's programming is the audio record. It is- it is arguably the most significant scientific breakthrough of them all. Now there's a footnote to this that is very strange. [inaudible 00:59:22] it's building up [inaudible 00:59:24]. Radiolab Presents: More Perfect - The Gun Show 69:05 : Feb 23, 2018: The Curious Case of the Russian Flash Mob at the West Palm Beach Cheesecake Factory 00:00:00 : Feb 19, 2018: Smarty Plants 34:54 : Feb 13, 2018: Ghosts of Football Past 36:40 : Feb 3, 2018: Radiolab Presents: More Perfect - One Nation, Under Money 55:04 : Jan 31, 2018 And once again, another nitrogen compound. 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