And, you know, the class ended and I went back to my office. The Blank Slate follows one of the world's leading experts on language and the mind as he explores the idea of human nature and its moral emotional and political coverings. I mean, it's the fact that of course that they're administering main to a strange. He eventually goes to England. I've been thinking about him for the better part of a year as you know. And Christensen, I dated her several times bef- three times- two times before. 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. This- this is really important. It's 0924 hours on June 17th, year 2003. These little nitrogen atoms will fiercely hold together and it's almost impossible to pry them apart. But there's a fellow. Okay. Although, clearly on some level they know it isn't. 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. Of course, normally you just have one experimenter who's giving you these instructions. And on June 13, 2003, Gary was secretly taken out of his jail cell, and brought to a sort of very nondescript, concrete, ugly office building. But when he gets there, he has to contend with his wife, Clara Immerwahr. Go to audible.com/radiolab or text Radiolab to 500500 for a free 30-day trial and a free audiobook. Stanley Milgram had four scripted prods that he wrote out for his experimenters for when the subjects didn't want to continue. Now the volunteer couldn't see the guy he was shocking, but he could definitely hear him. No. I do have a choice. I'm going to resign.". Yellow mucus was frothing out of their mouth, those who could still breathe would turn blue. They spent the next six months interrogating him, they brought in psychiatrists, and forensic psychologists to try to get an answer. He buried them or left their bodies in these little clumps in the woods. When you press one of the switches, all the way down, the learner gets a shock. 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. There's something deeply, deeply wounding, stressing, upsetting a thought that he had anything to do with Zyklon B, but he did. 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. He felt publicly humiliated. That's my opinion that's where I'm going to stand on it. You've touched me. 1933 comes and Hitler takes over. So, you know, around this point, I just don't want to have anything to do with this guy. And he is basically homeless at this point. And what he means is that when nitrogen atoms are just free floating in the air, they will cling to each other. "The experiment requires that you continue.". And that was a question that had haunted my father for decades. But every time the experimenter pulled out the fourth prod, and this was confirmed when the experiment was redone in 2006, total disobedience. Their goal is to make the home buying process smoother for you. "Definitely yes.". In fact, we hate being told, but we will do it on our own if we think it's good. Well, the thing that haunts me about the why question that I'm reminded of one of the oldest stories in the Bible, which is the story of Job. We ask deep questions and use investigative journalism to get the answers. And my father was recruited to the task force. Was it nice day? All right, just to back up for one second. We'll basically bring it to the front, and when the wind is right, we'll just spray it. Outside of WNYC, I think This American Life does as well, and I know enthusiastic fans transcribed Serial.. Yeah. Can we really know that? Have you ever thought about killing someone? "Why did you inflict all this suffering on them, on us? And I heard about him from science writer, Sam Kean. So wait. Around this same time, officials in the US government are calling him a war criminal. We should say that this next section of the program has some references which are extremely graphic and not to everybody's tastes. 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. Well he started fuming that his wife had dissed him, and-. They're not doing something because they have to. When I picked them up, I was going to kill them." Can't keep holding it all in. And then, he seemed fine when I said goodbye to him. Yes. 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. And give up the few details that they really needed to link him, certifiably, to all these crimes. plus-circle Add Review. He was t- very aggressive. You're going to keep giving him what, 450 volts every shot now? And you find yourself in a situation where you've got to do something that's hard. You can see this in the surveys that the men filled out after the experiments were over. This has allowed the world to have seven billion people. And not just because he was vain, which everyone agrees he was, but because he loves his country. And, you know, my view about human nature is that it affords infinite potential for lightness and dark. No motives. Radiolab.org. If the experiment had to be successful, it had to be carried on.". Why did you take these women off the streets and wanted to destroy them? The shocker would say, "Hell no I don't.". We need to put it under a lot of pressure. And actually, this wasn't just the German thing. Trim, nice mustache. I actually did the first thing, but he saw my intentions and ran away." And to this day they have not talked about that day. Because actually, he studied between 20 and 40 different variants of this same paradigm. You know, solar energy from the sun to grow crops. Who's going to do this powerful piece of science. But if looked at from another perspective, there is a sense in which you could celebrate what they're doing. For information about Sloan, at www.sloan.org. Yeah, I carried your oxygen and you walked beside me through the lobby commenting on the decor. Some- some people described it as a cloud, and then, others described it as this kind of 15 foot wall kind of hugging the land. But he does it with a kind of, uh, amoral athleticism. And everyone thought, "Well, we know the solution.". You wouldn't though. Whatever it is. But the guy is cut to shreds, he's allowed to confess. God. Radiolab is supported by Casper. She says, "What happened today?" But if you put two experimenters in the room and-. He takes a trip to Switzerland to a sanatorium. Speaker 2: And Haber has an idea. All rights reserved. Really, that story has been told a million and one times for the last 50 years. And to bring a few other of our storytellers in. On the other hand, I mean, if you look at the grand calculus, people he's helped or fed, versus people he's killed, I mean he's fed billions of people. Necrophilia. Nitrogen is an essential part of amino acids and proteins. "Research in any field is a must, particularly in this day and age. Radiolab is supported in part by the Alfred P Sloan Foundation enhancing public understanding of science and technology in the modern world. That's like an adult blue whale of chlorine. You've touched me. In a lab at Yale University with a bunch of regular Americans. 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. What's the noble cause in this case? 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. in the next room just because they're being told to. "Do you think that more studies of this sort should be carried out?" In December of 2001, my father and his colleagues-. Like shocking an innocent stranger over and over. Yes 80 percent of the air is nitrogen atoms. Test the outer edges of what you think you know, Copyright 2019 New York Public Radio. Why did you do this?" It immediately became apparent that there was going to be difficulties. comment. Radiolab is a radio program produced by WNYC, a public radio station in New York City, and broadcast on public radio stations in the United States. He would deny things. The questionnaires they filled out are part of the Milgram archive at Yale. The subjects are 40 males between the ages of 20 and 50. And you've done this how many times before. We will begin with this test-. Y-P-R-E-S, Actually the Americans called it [inaudible 00:36:42]. We realize this is hard work, but what you are doing is for the good of Germany. Each answer just begs another why. He claimed they were in the middle of a sex act, he would get distracted, something would happen. You're cut down before then. Gary had denied this to his own lawyers. Do we know? And later that night, after party, Haber takes a bunch of sleeping pills, goes to sleep. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. Yeah, necrophilia. The participants, you know, they're not- it's not- it's not just blind obedience. Yes. Yes, it's awesome, thank you, Ben. Cruelty, violence, badness. Two more minutes. Yeah. Said, "Yes, I've thought about killing someone?". See now around this point I just don't have anything to do with this guy, I just want to take a shower, walk-. Yet you go into this [inaudible 01:02:33] knowing full well that it could end up in her death. Literally disappeared for six months and didn't tell anyone where she was because she was terrified that he was going to kill her. He walked out of the room, and just started weeping. I'm not going to give you what you want. When I said, "Goodbye." The Gatekeeper | Radiolab Podcast - YouTube THE GATEKEEPER 0:00 / 48:50 Joyce Daubert takes Bendectin for nausea and Jason is born with birth defects The Gatekeeper | Radiolab Podcast. Like, saying like, "I don't want to kill a guy.". 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. Stanley Milgram had four scripted prods that he wrote out for his experimenters. 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. Now, we don't actually know if he threw a party. And she said, "My ex-boyfriend. I mean, yes, I did lie about that. This is, uh, I just want to take a shower. He has these pince-nez spectacles. Chimps. 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. You know, "I just want to kill her. And the number of chemical reactions. It was developed in his institute. Right. 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." 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. A hero. Hi, I'm Robert Krulwich. It's a little bit more direct. Even when they go along with the experiment-. But what's clear is that he saw no reason to question what he had done and that infuriated Clara. He's standing there on the front pushing the gas into the lungs of other human beings. [inaudible 00:49:36] bad people in Shakespeare. Transcript. He didn't really want to cop to everything that he did. But what if something's happened to the man. And he hasn't talked about it with anyone until I interviewed him for the book. If this is the singular moment in Shakespeare where he gives you an un-understandably evil man, no motives, no reason; any idea what the hell he was intending? He figured maybe one percent of these men would keep flicking the switches, up to the highest voltage. And actually two nations in South America went to war. And then Othello goes and kills his own wife, smothering hew with a pillow. He has a pot belly. Maybe it's all about doubt in the end. Terms and conditions apply. 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. Check out the Casper or the Wave mattress providing supportive comfort for every body type. Times. Terms and conditions apply. And the rough statistics are that half of each of our bodies contains nitrogen from the Haber process. Uh, when- when asked how close she came to killing him, she estimated 60%. I'm Robert Krulwich. He did this experiment a bunch of times, and in a bunch of different ways. No. "The experiment requires that you 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. And if they still were resisting or struggling, they'd get proud number three. 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. Every time that guy got the word wrong. Does everybody, at some point, have something dark in them that just tiptoes out, from time to time? And is found by her son. Hundreds of them were falling to the ground. At high temperature. And it's moving in about one meter per second. Well what is something's happened, the man had an attack or something there? Does he- is he saying what I think he's saying? What makes boys boys and girls girls. These are- these are people who are incredibly noble. Meaning to life to reveal itself in a way that restores order and gives us hope that all of this isn't just meaningless chaos. But if you look at Milgram's work closely. She was actually a sort of a genius herself. Do you leave this experiment in a light mood or in a dark mood overall? And, you know, it's a craft, but it's a craft with consequences. Test the outer edges of what you think you know, Copyright 2019 New York Public Radio. I left him, went home. And not just yeses. Then he goes and, you know, and celebrates that. 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. You know what's going to happen if she [inaudible 01:02:25]. Gary said, "I needed to kill them," they go, "Why?" You better check in on him, sir. So, around the turn of the century for German scientists like Haber, this was the challenge. So, Sam what happened to this guy after World War I? And they ask for it to be reformulated to take out the warning smell, and it becomes zyklon B, the killing gas of the concentration camps. They will spare his son if he fessed up and tells them what they need to know. Members of his extended family did. Hi, my name is Josh, and I'm calling from Harlem, New York. He recruited a bunch of subjects. That one simple, "Why?" Cruelty, violence, badness. We're going off tape now. And he throws himself at one of the central issues facing Germany at that time. And he goes home for a few days. The one that everybody knows, the so-called baseleine. I- I- I- well (laughs). Each answer just begs another why. Of course normally just have one experimenter who's giving you these instructions. He's bald. Yes, this is one of the things that sparked my interest in the topic of murder. I mean, that was makebelieve, but if you could somehow get a real Iago in the room and subject that person to questioning, and really get him to sort of fess up as to why they did it, would that make a difference? And, "Because women have stepped on me all my life." [inaudible 00:21:03] just cut it out. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience. And my views about human nature are that it affords infinite potential for lightness and dark. A lot of them are really positive even though they've just been told that they were duped. Scattered One dead dad. Here's what he did. All right. But if you put two experimenters in the room, and-. Making him the most prolific serial killer in American history. But the questions in the air, at the time, were very real. Like, how do you tell the real baddies from the rest of us? 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. Yeah. This was one of the bloodiest arenas on the, uh, Western front. There's a pause and my father just says-. They've got a very plausible, very credible, high status scientist at high status scientific institution. It's called Too Much Information. 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. Copyright 2019 New York Public Radio. That he asked Gary, there was a lot of questions he was asking. Accuracy and availability may vary. Um, although there's some (laughs) [crosstalk 00:02:19]. Yeah. He would have each subject sit down at a table. Yeah, me too. With help from Adam Cole, Rachel James, and Matt [Kielty 01:07:25]. I think you got to answer it, "With him." And when you stick a seed like weed seed in the ground-. ", Yes I did need to kill. 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 what happens is that your elbowing the nitrogen apart from itself, and then forcing it to bond with the hydrogen in a new way. And according to some accounts, as it crept across no man's land-. A lot of WNYC podcasts do transcripts-- I know On the Media does. Well,the experiment requires that you continue. Well, let's talk about Fritz Haber. Radiolab weaves stories and science into sound and music-rich documentaries. But, you know, over the entire ocean there's a lot of gold dissolved into the sea. More energy than seemed, like, possible to make. I have a choice, I'm not going to go ahead with it. And invited me over. One that applies smart technologies at scale with purpose and expertise; not just for some, but for all. And you have a number of chemical reactions. 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. Wow. Is an absolute order. Is that- is that nitrogen is trivalent. And then, Othello goes and kills his own wife, smothering her with a pillow. [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. Now, as we sort of know in life, lots of things that we do, if they worthwhile doing, and not always easy. ", Yeah, so here's the interesting thing. What kind of tech company does the world need today? 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. That afternoon, he gets in his car, goes home, he finds my mom on the deck, sits down next to her. The good Iago who makes you want to shower the minute you leave the theater 'cause you are sullied by him. Visit our website terms of use at www.wnyc.org for further information. Look. But as the play goes on, you begin to think that maybe that's just another lie. And that's what Shakespeare did in all his plays. At least not with a tremendous amount of energy. And then, the final one. 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. Like shocking an innocent stranger over and over. Certainly friends of his did. They're engaged with the test, they're trying to be good participants. In fact, his chemist had given this particular pesticide a smell. with Lulu Miller, and Latif Nasser. His wife went into hiding. And also thank you to Alex Haslem, Professor of Psychology at the University of Exeter. And so I went up to the bedroom to find him and he was in a rage. No one has a monopoly on bad. That was not a real shock. I'm not going to give you- I'm- I'm not going to help restore the sense that there is a moral order to the world and a moral norm. ", He actually threw a dinner party in celebration-. He would dance around things. So, who is- who is this guy right here? So in the end, where do you come down? I'm gonna-. That's what you do. Right. Do we know? And it's this defense. They reached back to the shelf and they find this Zyklon stuff. Alex Haslam, professor of psychology at the University of Exeter. That's right. And maybe forces hydrogen in the tank. I don't know, I can't help but feel bad for the guy. Now what you need to understand about Alex Haslam is that he hates it when interviewers only want to talk about the baseline study. Ear drums, God. If any sizeable fraction actually acted on their homicidal fantasies, the streets would be running- running red. 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. And says, "This is intolerable. That's my thing and that's where I'm going to stand on it. These little nitrogen atoms will fiercely hold together, and it's almost impossible to pry them apart. And, uh, so does Clara. In a rage how? It was developed in his Institute. Did members of Haber's family die in the concentration camps? That's one of the things we have to know and that's why it's okay to let out. It's a pretty (bleep) thing to miss, isn't it really? 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