Clara comes from the same town. That's my opinion that's where I'm going to stand on it. He takes a trip to Switzerland to a sanatorium. Who they would kill, where they'd do it, when. She says, "What happened today?" And what he decided to do is go into the ocean, into sea water, which contains very small levels of gold. He's standing there on the front, pushing the gas into the lungs of other human beings, admittedly, it's a ware, but still. At least not with a tremendous amount of energy. And it gets even more disturbing for my father as the conversation suddenly pivots to another victim. His health is failing in 1934, he takes a trip to Switzerland to a sanatorium-. Copyright 2019 New York Public Radio. And then, the final one. But what's clear is that he saw no reason to question what he had done and that infuriated Clara. They will spare his son if he fesses up and- and tells them what they need to know. This is what totally pulled me into this story, the prods. "Why did you inflict all this suffering on them, on us? And my father was recruited to the task force. It's called Too Much Information. So, basically at 6:00 pm at April 22nd. [crosstalk 00:17:42], It's the experimenter-. You know, he's a man adrift. So, who is- who is this guy right here? The Bad Show Jul 27, 2018. In that moment, my father, he stands up and he says. Leaving a son, a- a- alone with his dead mother. And he says that's what people wanted. And they would circle yes or no. "Do you think that more studies of this sort should be carried out?" So in the end, where do you come down? And this particular story, it comes from a book that David wrote. We'll basically bring it to the front, and when the wind is right, we'll just spray it. Yeah, members of his extended family did; certainly friends of his did. So my father and the other interviewer in that room that morning, Detective John [Matsen 00:58:19], they start using a line, a tact of interviewing that was very. Direct your voice toward that microphone in the room [inaudible 00:20:33]-, So they sit down in the chair thinking, "Wow, this is really important. Now what you need to understand about Alex Haslem is that he hates it when interviewers only want to talk about the baseline study. Oh, that right there, slap some quotations around that. [inaudible 00:21:03] just cut it out. Yes, this is one of the things that sparked my interest in the topic of murder. You know [crosstalk 00:25:00]. Go. I actually did the first thing, but he saw my intentions and ran away." And give up the few details that they really needed to link him, certifiably, to all these crimes. The questionnaires they filled out are part of the Milgram archive at Yale. "Research in any field is a must, particularly in this day and age." And they're both secularized Jews. And why I cared for her because I dated her before, but this day didn't turn out right. Each answer just begs another why. Listen Now. As soon as it did, soldiers began to convulse. They're trying to do the right thing. Now, we don't actually know if he threw a party. Transcripts and recorded audio may be available for many of the programs you hear on WNYC. Cruelty, violence, badness. When I stand before you, judges of Israel, in this court to accuse Adolf Eichmann. We didn't really come into any kind of agreement with the Haber thing. He would have each subject sit down at a table. I'm going to resign.". Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience. I mean-. It is- it is arguably the most significant scientific breakthrough of them all. It is a, the- the critical- the critical force prod. And Haber has an idea. And what makes a bad person so bad that he's different from the rest of us? Well talk about Fritz Haber. The experiment requires that we continue. He's working with chemicals. I'm starting to feel a little bit better about my fellow man. 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. That was not a real shock. Well, there's something distasteful about the fact that he was too into it, but I do think on some level you have to divorce the man from his deeds. Let not your sorrows die though I am dead. And I think what we want out of the why is meaning. RadioLab is supported, in part, by the National Science Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. This story made us wonder, "Is David's friend-". 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. Quite literally. Radiolab is on a curiosity bender. Meaning, any idea what was in his mind? And I designed a little questionnaire where I simply asked the students, "Have you ever thought about killing someone?" And if they still were resisting or struggling, they'd get proud number three. I'm almost done, guys. All rights reserved. That's one of the things we have to know, and that's why it's okay to let it out. It's okay to admit this. And he is celebrated for it. His health is failing in 1934. So wait. Well what's the noble cause in this case? Haber, it's unknown what happens for the rest of the evening, but it is a well documented fact that the very next morning-. He takes over leadership of this institute in Berlin, and he starts hobnobbing with a whole different level of society. Equal Housing lender licensed in all 50 states. Members of his extended family did. With my arm. I don't think I ever had a fantasy that anatomically specific where I would see the part of the other person that I was going to stab or plan it like that. But if looked at from another perspective, there is a sense in which you could celebrate what they're doing. If those two participants refused to go on-, Saying like, "I don't want to kill a guy. And the number of chemical reactions. in the next room just because they're being told to. 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. Really, that story has been told a million and one times for the last 50 years. Just give me your finger, [crosstalk 00:09:28] I'm going to-. Imagine they really were had to administer shocks to themselves or something. Why does God allow this to happen? "The experiment requires that you continue.". This you and this two other participants. When Lucy was only two days old she was adopted by a psychologist and his wife who wondered: if given the right environment, how human could Lucy . Was he grappling with something? Um, although there's some (laughs) [crosstalk 00:02:19]. Jeff Jensen's book is The Green River Killer, A True Detective Story. So then Hey wait, I'm almost done guys, give me two more minutes, two more minutes. He says that he's always been hiring people based on how smart they are, and not who their grandparents were. And he finds her actually still alive, with the life about to run out of her. When you press one of the switches, all the way down, the learner gets a shock. Iago. When we asked how close she came to killing him, she estimated 60 percent. And he hasn't talked about it with anyone until I interviewed him for the book. It is a fair question to ask, "What are the conditions under which you, or me, or any of us could do-. Within minutes the gas reached the Allied side. He takes command of them partially, he travels to the front. There's something deeply, deeply wounding, stressing, upsetting a thought that he had anything to do with Zyklon B, but he did. And a mysterious past. So, around the turn of the century for German scientists like Haber, this was the challenge. But this was a moment in German history, he says, when Jews had a decent amount of freedom. What does it actually mean to be bad anyways? I'm Robert Krulwich. No. Probably have, but in case you haven't. I'll give you bad. I'm going to take a break. 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. radiolab-archive. When you needed to stop for breath, your hand ran light and steady. This is just somebody who's performing brain surgery without anesthesia on other people. But as the play goes on, you begin to think that maybe that's just another lie. Telling a friend he felt like he'd lost his homeland. Well, have you ever been blackmailed the way this woman was being blackmailed? About; Blog; Projects; Help; Donate An illustration of a heart shape . Is that- is that nitrogen is trivalent. Now there's a footnote to this that is very strange. That allows an individual to act inhumanely-, It's like a downloadable from the internet; instant defense for doing wrong. Of course normally just have one experimenter who's giving you these instructions. Literally disappeared for six months and didn't tell anyone where she was because she was terrified that he was going to kill her. We'll be right back. I would rather have scientists who carry doubt with them as they proceed. Then, we reconsider what Stanley Milgram's famous experiment really revealed about human nature (it's both better and worse than we thought). Investigating a strange world. My dorsal hair stood up when I read the end of this. They were gagging, they were choking; hundreds of them were falling to the ground like-. 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. Well, actually the one thing that the study really doesn't show is that people obey orders. Bred from the air was the phrase. That allows an individual to act inhumanely? Hi I'm Robert Krulwich. So, you're saying they're shocking these people because they thought it was worthwhile? All right. And there is no doubt that today's plants and animals carry the genetic legacy of ancestors who fought fiercely to survive and reproduce. She expressed disapproval about his clothing choices. Go. Live shows were first offered in 2008. But harbor saw it as a wonderful success, and wished that the Germans had been better prepared to exploit it, because he felt they really could have made a terrific advance if they had had more confidence. I just needed to kill because of that. Although, I don't know if that's the right word for this next thing 'cause it's sort of more complicated. Like, you walked into the room, what- what do you find? He gets promoted to the rank of Captain. Wow. Now, as we sort of know in life, lots of things that we if they're worthwhile doing, they're not always easy. It has enough what they used to call then solar energy. Like you just did, which happens constantly. I think I call it pince-nez, so I'm not sure. You can find out more information about all those guys on our website. And one of the first acts that the Nazis do is to-, That says, "There shall be no Jews in the civil service. "This was a moment in German history," he says, "When Jews had a decent amount of freedom.". By the ocean of breath twice, I remember I carried your oxygen. The expectation is somebody is made to make his peace with his maker before he dies; that's what you do. And my father wasn't buying it. And he spends five years and a futile effort-, Sounds insane. But 75% of the people who worked for him at the institute, they were Jewish. The most common source of nitrogen is in the air around us. They're engaged with the test, they're trying to be good participants. Hi, I'm Robert Krulwich. 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