You can be sure of your purchase with Casper's 100 night risk-free sleep on it trial. Now, we don't actually know if he threw a party. Equal Housing lender licensed in all 50 states. Read these words. Gary said, "I needed to kill them," they go, "Why?" He could do anything. Humans. 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. Radiolab: Lucy. That's one of the things we have to know, and that's why it's okay to let it out. 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. But we thought we would- we would play this show, uh, about a little bit of bad that is in all of us. I don't know, I can't help but feel bad for the guy. But even with all that gore and horribleness, there was often a moment that people waited for; and in a way we wait for it still, even now. And so Satan, basically, systematically destroys Job's life. Continue using the last switch on the board, please. And on their skins, as on the bark of trees, have with my knife carved in Roman letters, 'Let not your sorrow die, though I am dead.'". 'cause actually he studied between 20 and 40 different variants of this same paradigm. 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. And almost like blaming the victims. Radiolab Society & Culture Science Latest Transcripts Kittens Kick The Giggly Blue Robot All Summer 2.7K views over 2 years ago 41:58 With the recent passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, there's been a lot of debate about how much power the Supreme Court should really have. "Just wanted to kill them, I just needed to kill them." Although, clearly on some level they know it isn't. There's a lot of black and white thinking happening right now. And he spends five years and a futile effort-, Sounds insane. With help from Shima Oliaee, Carter Hodge, and Lisa Yeger. Terms and conditions apply. His experiment remains one of the most famous experiments of the 20th century. All right. We're all great apes. Shoots herself in the chest, and is found by her son. We, as- as onlookers to this study, we have this kind of god-like, uh, sort of vision of, like, well of course what they're doing is wrong. Let me- let me jump just, uh, a quote in front of me. Take one. Three, two, one. See now around this point I just don't have anything to do with this guy, I just want to take a shower, walk-. In a way we wait for it still. Because you are sullied by them. Radiolab is produced by Jad Abumrad. Some people describe it as a cloud, and then others describe it as this kind of 15 foot wall kind of hugging the land, and it's just sort of approaching. Just tiptoes out, just from time to time. This is Jeff Jensen and he's a reporter in LA. This is actually mean to be bad anyways. This story made us wonder is David's friend, is he unusual? And then, he just trails off. Well I can use that same process-. Fritz Haber's a professor, small university, he's working with chemicals; it's about 1880. And you like her. Said- said, "Yes, I've thought about killing someone.". Does everybody, at some point, have something dark in them that just tiptoes out, from time to time? I mean, that was make believe. Hey this is Jad, RadioLab is supported by IBM. With help from Adam Cole, Rachel James, and Matt [Kielty 01:07:25]. And as it happens, my father has very vivid memories of investigating the Carol Christensen murder. But over the entire ocean, there's a lot of gold dissolved into the sea. ", He actually threw a dinner party in celebration-. Really? ", "We'll basically bring it to the front and when the- when the wind is right, we'll just spray it.". So these are some word pairs. By this point, David moved on to a new university and he's teaching an introductory psychology class. Really, that story has been told a million and one times for the last 50 years. He- he loves the fatherland and he loves Germany. His wife, um, went into hiding. Then a few months later, he started calling me trying to get back together, but I didn't want to. Natural deposits would be like seaweed or-, You know, you could find it in cow manure or-. It's absolutely essential that you continue. connect it to this little electrode to your finger. Now, of course you could find some nitrogen out in the world. I don't know, I would rather have scientists who carry doubt with them as they proceed, I-. So, it's very-. 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. He would dance around things. Well, actually the one thing that the study really doesn't show is that people obey orders. Stanley Milgram took electric shock very seriously. If any sizable fraction actually acted on their homicidal fantasies, the streets would be running red. Okay. But he organizes soldiers, he organizes whole gas units. And not just yeses. Our fact checker's Michelle Harris because facts matter. Hi, this is Lauren from Winnipeg. No, but there's part of me says, "You know, here's a guy who just wanted to do everything better than had ever been done before." Radiolab was created by Jad Abumrad and is produced by Soren Wheeler. He was always smoking his Virginian cigars. Radiolab is supported by Audible. But, you know, over the entire ocean there's a lot of gold dissolved into the sea. with the ideas that people would do bad if they think it's good, it's a good noble cause. Obedience droops to about 40 percent [inaudible 00:15:40]. The same year that Adolf Eichmann goes on trial for Nazi war crimes. Now, that right there, slap some quotations around that. Radiolab is on a curiosity bender. ", Meanwhile, later that night on the other side of town-. Now, Haber was Jewish, but because he had served in World War I-. He's standing there on the front, pushing the gas into the lungs of other human beings, admittedly, it's a ware, but still. And Satan's like, "Well, I- I bet I can change his mind." And I used to socialize with him and his wife. Prosecution, [crosstalk 00:12:03] the Attorney General. And he said, "Look, this is what you're going to do is Of course, you don't want to do this. in this episode we begin with a chilling statistic: 91% of men, and 84% of women, have fantasized about killing someone. They're not doing something because they have to, they're doing it because they think they ought to. That's like an adult blue whale of chlorine. 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. He says, "Well, we can drive those enemy soldiers out of trenches with gas. We need to put it under a lot of pressure. The reason why he's telling all this stuff is because he has cut a deal. Yeah. I'm good. And while David's sitting in the bedroom with this friend, the guy looks up at him, and he says-, Like through his teeth, "I'm going to kill her.". It's called Too Much Information. Yes 80 percent of the air is nitrogen atoms. Like, you can't throw that air onto a plant (laughing). in the next room just because they're being told to. He buried them, or left their bodies in these little clumps in the woods-. Then a few months later, he started calling me, trying to get back together, but I didn't want to. ", "Set 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, you quench with their tears. He eventually goes to England. What makes a bad person so bad that he's different from the rest of us? Yes, it's awesome, thank you, Ben. And so, Gary starts going through this narrative of what he did to Carol. even past when they were screaming in pain. We'll be right back [inaudible 00:31:42], let's just finish this series. And every scenario produced a different result. You've touched me. So in the end, where do you come down? This is, uh, I just want to take a shower. Is that like a green cloud? And as soon as it did, soldiers began to convulse. That's what's horrifying about it, but imagine they were administering pain to themselves. radiolab-archive. And he did too. That is true. In a rage, uh, how? So, in the end where do you come down? Copyright 2019 New York Public Radio. I'll go along with this.". All rights reserved. 2012-06-22 . When did he live, and what did he look and that kind of stuff? All right, so I'm going to talk to you over this intercom, okay? There's something deeply, deeply wounding, stressing, upsetting a thought that he had anything to do with Zyklon B, but he did. So, here's the interesting thing. You mean they're looking at 20 million people going hungry? Visit casper.com/radiolab and use code radiolab and check out to get $50 towards select mattresses. 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. Were you a little bit, like, horrified? Whether it was feeding or killing or-, And he does. Oh, that right there, slap some quotations around that. She was one of the first women to earn a PhD in her country. He had an experimenter who wasn't a scientist, but was a member of the general public. It just that-, Yeah. In front of this really impressive looking machine. He says, "Well, we can drive those enemy soldiers out of trenches with gas.". Now, admittedly it's a war, but still. And also, thank you to Alex Haslam, Professor of Psychology at the University of Exeter. I- I- I- well (laughs). He's bald. And once again, another nitrogen compound. I'm Robert Krulwich. I-. Radiolab is supported by Audible. Go. And what makes a bad person so bad that he's different from the rest of us? A given episode might whirl you through science, legal history, and into the home of. Why does God allow this to happen? Thank you Ben. But in all of these other scenarios, they don't. He stirs up hatred between friends, between lovers, he even schemes against his own wife. And then he just trails off. This is RadioLab. No reason. So, these are some word pairs. And he was someone who had very big ambitions. That's Stanley Milgram talking about the experiment in a film. That one simple, "Why?" There's trench warfare. It has enough what they used to call then solar energy. This has allowed the world to have 7 billion people. How many times would they shock that sad-. And invited me over. Or nice chair? You're bad." "Willing to help and a worthwhile experiment.". And then it was several hours later, in the middle of the night, that I got the call. And it gets even more disturbing for my father as the conversation suddenly pivots to another victim. 10s, 10, 15, 20 times. WNYC is America's most listened-to public radio station and the producer of award-winning programs and podcasts like Radiolab, On the Media, and The Brian Lehrer Show. Yeah. But we ended up walking this question around different people-. And while David's sitting in the bedroom with this friend, the guy looks up at him and he says-, Like, through his teeth. 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 give up the few details that they really needed to link him, certifiably, to all these crimes. Then, we reconsider what Stanley Milgram's famous experiment really revealed about human nature (it's both better and worse than we thought). This is Radiolab and today we're going to get bad. Yes I did lie about that. In front of this really impressive looking machine. Right. This was one of the bloodiest arenas on the, uh, Western front. Everybody was desperate for sources, new sources of nitrogen. We just got to get ov- get out of it where-. Well talk about Fritz Haber. Yeah. 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. And this is was the difference between Kaiser Wilhelm and, of course, Hitler's Germany. 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. Live shows were first offered in 2008. Because, ultimately, the play offers up a reason for his nastiness. Just a little glimmer. Did members of Haber's family die in the concentration camp? But what if something's happened to the man. He would have each subject sit down at a table. Scattered One dead dad. Why does God allow this to happen? And he hasn't talked about it with anyone until I interviewed him for the book. Birds would just fall from the air. More information about Sloan at www.sloan.org. Just because of a mathematical summing up. And shortly after his return, Clara allegedly confronts him and says, "Look, you are morally bankrupt. This actually brings us to the first topic of the hour, so let me Just to set it up. Hmm. And so in 1918, Fritz Haber gets the Nobel Prize. Enhancing public understanding of science and technology in the modern world. Trivalent. But the generals were not all that convinced. And in the trial, when the prosecutors essentially ask him, "How you came to commit genocide?" With AI, blockchain, and quantum technology, IBM is developing smart, scalable technologies that help businesses work better together. ", In Titus Andronicus, there's a character by the name of-, There's a moment in the play when Aaron gets up on stage, looks at the audience and says, "Let me just tell you the kinds of things I've been up to recently. The killer seemed to have placed the bodies as if they were mannequins. Okay. I mean, it's the fact that of course that they're administering main to a strange. A hero. In case you've never heard of this, probably have, but in case you haven't, here's what he did. Just give me your finger, [crosstalk 00:09:28] I'm going to-. So there's a way in which there's a touch of spark of humanity. You're telling us all this. Well what is something's happened, the man had an attack or something there? I have a choice, I'm not going to go ahead with it. 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. He figured maybe 1% of these men would keep flicking these switches up to the highest voltage, but that's not what he found. We'll be right back. Well if the idea is that people will do bad if they think it's good, if it's a good noble cause. He loves the fatherland, and he loves Germany. If those two participants refused to go on. Yeah. Oft have I digged up dead men from their graves and set them upright at their dear friend's door. You need to admit this. I just needed to kill because of that. "I just needed to kill because of that." He didn't really want to cop to everything that he did. "It's okay to admit this, you need to admit this.". And, um, why is it so important do you think to understand the why behind such an evil act? In that why, in that one simple why that he asked Gary, there was a lot of questions he was asking. Making him the most prolific serial killer in American history. I'm gonna-. He ultimately spent 17 years searching for this man. And then, Othello goes and kills his own wife, smothering her with a pillow. So around the turn of the century for German scientists like Haber, this was the challenge. Right. We didn't really come into any kind of agreement with the Haber thing. Now we're seeing about 100 million tons of synthetic fertilizer produced industrially each year. You went through this a lot of times before and she's already told you she's in a hurry. This is what's driving the world towards 10, 12 by 2050. I can't quite place him-. Meaning, I mean, what- what- any idea what was in his mind? At least not with a tremendous amount of energy. Then suddenly the thought occurred to me that my life would be much happier without him in existence.". And so when I went to the party, the party was already in full swing when I got there. Haber starts thinking, in order to do this we need to, uh, pressure this. Um, although there's some (laughs) [crosstalk 00:02:19]. Anytime the experimenter said, "You must continue." 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 he does it with a kind of amoral athleticism, he does it without humility, without a lot of doubt. Right. And not to everybody's taste. So, they sit down in the chair thinking, "Wow. Obviously no need to be alarmed, that was not a real shot. Chimps. If those two participants refused to go on-, Saying like, "I don't want to kill a guy. These little nitrogen atoms will fiercely hold together, and it's almost impossible to pry them apart. And my father wasn't buying it. He's a man adrift. So, the subject seemed willing to shock another human being, but as soon as you say it's an order. We're going to meet her later. She was good to- she was good to me. And they're saying, "Have you checked out Job? And she said, "My ex-boyfriend. Go to audible.com/radiolab or text Radiolab to 500500 for a free 30-day trial and a free audiobook. Yeah. You're going to keep giving what? This is just somebody who's performing brain surgery without anesthesia on other people. So wait. Well, I mean, I know that sir, but I mean, he's up to a 195 volts. You're cut down before then. On the other hand, if anyone can do it-. All right. If it doesn't show that people are just obeying orders-, All right, let's go on to our instructions. Okay. I'm about to help this quest for knowledge. I got to tell you, um, I'm not totally comfortable that you are providing all the information about-. But it wasn't until a few years later that he learned something that really put what happened that night into context. Well, all right. They're trying to do the right thing. And not just because he was vain, which everyone agrees he was, but because he loves his country. And, like, it kind of, like, hurt his feelings. Yes, it's awesome. So, Jeff wrote this book because his father, Tom Jensen, was one of the lead detectives tracking Gary Ridgeway. And he was someone who had very big ambitions. There are hints of reasons. Bald on top. And you tell us, "Actually, you know 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. What follows is this ongoing conversation between Job and his friends about why does this happen? Radiolab is supported in part by the Alfred P Sloan Foundation enhancing public understanding of science and technology in the modern world. Do you leave this experiment in a light mood or in a dark mood overall? And the, uh, really, really bad that is in, uh, some of us. Let's expect more from technology, let's put smart to work, visit ibm.com/smart to learn more. The participants that are there in this study-. Well, Sam, what happened to this guy after World War I? He would give all his baddies at least one moment where they could be understood. 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