But even with all that gore and horribleness, there was often a moment that people waited for. Birds would just fall from the air. There's something deeply, deeply wounding, stressing, upsetting a thought that he had anything to do with Zyklon B, but he did. Leaving a son, a- a- alone with his dead mother. Of course, nobody wants to be killing other people; we realize this is hard work. Thousands of people have done it before you. Members of his extended family did. A given episode might whirl you through science, legal history, and into the home of. Terms and conditions apply. We didn't really come into any kind of agreement with the Haber thing. Now what you need to understand about Alex Haslem is that he hates it when interviewers only want to talk about the baseline study. He was always smoking his Virginian cigars. And even when they do say yes, even when they go along with the experiment, as you can see in the film. And Haber has an idea. When you needed to stop for breath, your hand ran light and steady. Imagine how it feels to have an award-winning team by your side through the mortgage process. My dorsal hair stood up when I read the end of this. 'cause actually he studied between 20 and 40 different variants of this same paradigm. And then, he seemed fine when I said goodbye to him. 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. He actually was very humiliated that Germany had lost, and especially humiliated over the fact that they had to pay enormous war reparations to other countries. And actually, this wasn't just the German thing. When you call someone then you're kind of done with them. [inaudible 00:59:22] it's building up [inaudible 00:59:24]. And then the final one-. Takes away his wife, his children, all his material possessions. So he sends a letter to the Ministry of Education resigning, and he leaves Germany. He goes straight to the German [inaudible 00:36:56] and- and he pitches this idea. ", Meanwhile, later that night on the other side of town-. ", Yes I did need to kill. How many times would they shock that sad-. He was trying to repeat this masterstroke. But what you're doing is for the good of Germany, and this is necessary in order to advance our noble cause.". This next part's a little graphic. So these are some word pairs. The subjects range in occupation from corporation presidents to good [inaudible 00:12:29] and plumbers. Look, the participants, it's not just blind obedience, "Oh you tell me so, yes sir, no sir, three bags full, sir.". Well I can use that same process-. So, let me just get that ov- I mean-, So, again, the baseline study is the one where 65% of the volunteers-. And he says, "That's what people wanted. And the rough statistics are that half of each of our bodies contains nitrogen from the Haber process. Clara comes from the same town. We asked, "Who do you think about killing?" Why does God allow this to happen? This is what's driving the world towards 10, 12, by 2050. 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. That afternoon, he gets in his car, goes home, he finds my mom on the deck, sits down next to her. It's very important because if you ask university undergraduates what does the Milgram study show, they will invariably say something like "They show that people obey orders" okay? Science. Wasn't satisfied [inaudible 01:01:21] maybe mad 'cause she was very much in a hurry. Even when they go along with the experiment-. He's chomping on a Virginian cigar. All right. Just a little glimmer. And it's kind of surprising, a lot of them are really positive, even though they've just been told that they were duped. No reason. And not just 'cause he was vain, which everyone agrees he was, but because he loves his country. Is that how you say that thing-. To feed about 30 million people. Come over now.". He'll be our guide for the segment. Accuracy and availability may vary. So, how do you feel about him now? She expressed disapproval about his clothing choices. And you know what? Continuing using the last switch on the board please. And to this day, they have not talked about that day, and he hasn't talked about it with anyone until I interviewed him for the book. [2] In any case-. The one that everybody knows, the so-called baseleine. They start disagreeing with each other, and this one you get zero percent going all the way. "Why did you inflict all this suffering on them, on us? Their goal is to make the home buying process smoother for you. My dad said, "I don't want to talk about it." And not just because he was vain, which everyone agrees he was, but because he loves his country. Uh, he was doing his- his great science work right around the turn of, uh, the 20th century. All rights reserved. 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. "Do you think that more studies of this sort should be carried out?" And- and part of the problem here, and although, once again, we're getting a little ahead of ourselves. Haber's gas troops, uh, un- unscrewed, they opened the valves on almost 6000 tanks containing a 150 tons of chlorine. But if looked at from another perspective, there's a sense in which you could celebrate what they're doing. Does everybody, at some point, have something dark in them that just tiptoes out, from time to time? For much the same reasons. The Bad Show. There's a pause and my father just says. I mean, it's the fact that of course that they're administering main to a strange. They've got a very plausible, very credible, high status scientist at high status scientific institution. In fact, his chemist had given this particular pesticide a smell. In that moment, my father, he stands up and he says. Is that how you say that? Yeah, but those are fantasies, they're some of them actually seem like-, Okay, this is a 20 year old female. "Well, why can't you deal with it in a normal way?" The Bad Show Publication date Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0000 We wrestle with the dark side of human nature, and ask whether it's something we can ever really understand, or fully escape. And that tonnages then moves into our food source, our food source then moves into our bodies, and the rough statistics are that half of each of our bodies contains nitrogen from the Haber process. Well, I can use that same process to make explosives because the thing that you put into the ground to grow more food is also the thing you can explode to make a bomb.". Where . They're not doing something because they have to. But he is a large, very strong man with a black belt in karate. Why did you take these women off the streets and want to destroy them? This is basically what Stanley Milgram set out to test. 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." Fritz Haber's a professor, small university, he's working with chemicals; it's about 1880. The authoritative record of New York Public Radios programming is the audio record. I mean, you know, it's just one of those things we've been bringing back shows that we think are just vibrating still in the world. 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. And she said, "My ex-boyfriend. We realize this is hard work, but what you are doing is for the good of Germany. It has enough what they used to call then solar energy. If you breathed it in, it sort of irritates your lungs to the extent that they sort of fills up with fluid so quickly that you sort of drowning in your own phlegm. In that moment, my father, he stands up and he says-. I'm going to give you a little, uh (laughing). So, it's very-. But in all of these other scenarios, they don't. And my dad said, "I don't want to talk about it." And then, and- So, he says that and you're like, "Okay. Yellow mucus was frothing out of their mouth, those who could still breathe would turn blue. It gets bogged down. She had something else on her mind. And then, in experiment number four, when the teacher has to hold the learner's hand down-. Yeah. We've got to know now. It was- it was a warning smell so that people didn't inadvertently breathe it in and get sick. They continued shocking their corpses. And, uh, so does Clara. 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? "The experiment requires that you continue.". And what he decided to do is go into the ocean, into sea water, which contains very small levels of gold. They're going to record it okay. You know [crosstalk 00:25:00]. Stanley Milgram had four scripted prods that he wrote out for his experimenters for when the subjects didn't want to continue. Gary had denied this to his own lawyers. Hi I'm Robert Krulwich. And he was someone who had very big ambitions. At least not with a tremendous amount of energy. She says, "What happened today?" He felt publicly humiliated. You know, solar energy from the sun to grow crops. This is Jeff Jensen, and he's a reporter in LA. I'm going to take a break. 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. I- I- I would say in a powerful mood. Just to back up for one second. Now the volunteer couldn't see the guy he was shocking, but he'd definitely hear him. He walked out of the room, and just started weeping. And did you go back to the party then and continued dinner partying for a while? It's like playing dirty. We take a look at one particular fantasy lurking behind these numbers, and wonder what this shadow world might tell us about ourselves and our neighbors. Although, clearly on some level they know it isn't. So, in the end where do you come down? Let me- let me jump just, uh, a quote in front of me. Just push the button that corresponds to the right word. Why did you take these women off the streets and wanted to destroy them? Now, that right there, slap some quotations around that. Right? Because it's like we started with this experiment that we all see as evidence of humans' latent capacity for evil. And there is no doubt that today's plants and animals carry the genetic legacy of ancestors who fought fiercely to survive and reproduce. And my father wasn't buying it. And once again, another nitrogen compound. Making him the most prolific serial killer in American history. But if looked at from another perspective, there is a sense in which you could celebrate what they're doing. And he said, "To start, you want to know about bad? In a rage, uh, how? Nitrogen is an essential part of amino acids and proteins. Now, why don't you just- what do you remember since we last talked in this interview? 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 to a big iron tank. And one evening they were throwing a- a party. Uh, Haber it's unknown what happened for the rest of that evening, but it is a well-documented fact that the very next morning. He gets promoted to the rank of Captain. Necrophilia. So, you're saying they're shocking these people because they thought it was worthwhile? Radiolab is supported by Casper. And then he just trails off. Cruelty, violence, badness in this episode we begin with a chilling statistic: 91% of men, and 84% of women, have fantasized about killing someone. If those two participants refused to go on. Well, have you ever been blackmailed the way this woman was being blackmailed? Three, two, one. And once again, another nitrogen compound. Well, we're trying to think about what goes on in the mind of a bad person. I mean, that was make believe. Here it goes. And "Because women have stepped on me all my life." ", Yeah, we just need a whole lot more of one simple-. Haber starts thinking, "In order to do this we need to pressure this, we need to put it under a lot of pressure.". And Iago-, He refuses what we fully expect, and what everybody on stage, at that moment, fully expects from him. And also thank you to Alex Haslem, Professor of Psychology at the University of Exeter. Terms and conditions apply. So, how do you feel about him now because I don't know I can't help but feel bad for the guy? And it's just sort of approaching. And the number of chemical reactions. I killed her. Like, "Oh my God. 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. Of course normally just have one experimenter who's giving you these instructions. All right, so I'm going to talk to you over this intercom, okay? Yeah, me too. In fact we hate being told. But if you think that's the right thing, if you think that science is worth pursuing you say, "Okay, I'll go along with this.". And the infinity of gray spaces in between. Well, have you ever been blackmailed the way this woman was being blackmailed? With higher and higher voltage. And one evening, they were throwing a party and invited me over. And it becomes Zyklon B, the killing gas of the concentration camps. And I heard about him from science writer, Sam Kean. So he starts experimenting. Mm-hmm (affirmative). Because you are sullied by them. His was the first generation when a young Jewish boy could truly imagine that he could just be a regular part of that society. He knew about it. So, Jeff wrote this book because his father, Tom Jensen, was one of the lead detectives tracking Gary Ridgeway. And if they didn't go on, if they resisted, the experimenter would break out prod number two. 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. 35.3M . I think you got to answer it, "With him." This- this is really important. So, he starts experimenting. It is still trotted out to explain everything from hazing to war crimes. And as soon as it did, soldiers began to convulse. His experiment remains one of the most famous experiments of the 20th century. You mean they're looking at 20 million people hungry? Radiolab: Lucy. And everyone thought, "Well, we know the solution.". He was in this state of fury, he said, and instead of hitting his wife, he smashed his fist into the bathroom mirror, and then realized that he had to leave the house, or he was going to do damage to her. It's about how far would these people go. This episode was produced with help from Carter Hodge. The whole thing happened serveral years ago. And that's what Shakespeare did in all of his plays. No motives. Yeah, necrophilia. ", 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. Well talk about Fritz Haber. "Definitely yes.". Investigating a strange world. He would dance around things. What he means is that when nitrogen atoms are just free floating in the air, they will cling to each other. An experiment is being conducted in the elegant interaction laboratory at Yale University. That is if you don't continue, we're going to have to discontinue the experiment. So, I'm just going to go into this other room over here. Was he trying to make a commentary, and so was he grappling with something? Like, is that something that's universal? 450 volts every shock now? Even now. And, um, in January of 1984, the Green River task force was formed. And it's moving at about one meter per second. Radiolab is on a curiosity bender. This is Radio Lab, and today elements. He had an experimenter who wasn't a scientist, but was a member of the general public. Yeah. To him, he seemed calm and I left, and went home. They're engaged with the task. So, he sends a letter to the Ministry of Education resigning and he leaves Germany, telling a friend he felt like he lost his homeland. And in the other room, there was a guy, who he called the learner, who was supposed to have memorized some words. Radiolab is supported by Casper. After all, he knows what he can stand. in the next room just because they're being told to. Dan Charles, Sam Keen, Latif Nasser, Fred Koffman and Fritz Stern. And I think what we want out of the why is meaning. No. Well he started fuming that his wife had dissed him, and-. Ear drums, God. It is a fair question to ask what are the conditions under which you or me or any of us could do-. People like director Sam Mendez, musicians Jean Batiste, and Wynton Marsalis, Call Your Girlfriends [inaudible 00:27:12], and our very own Alec Baldwin. We'll be right back. Trim, nice mustache. The Green River murders terrorized Seattle in the 1980s. Okay. Humans. The questionnaires they filled out are part of the Milgram archive at Yale. The son eventually after he immigrates to America kills himself. 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. There's something deeply, deeply wounding, stressing, upsetting at the thought that he had anything to do with zyklon B; but he did. He goes straight to the German high command, and he pitches this idea. Radiolab is on a curiosity bender. See now around this point I just don't have anything to do with this guy, I just want to take a shower, walk-. Sixty-five percent-, To shock their fellow citizens, over and over again-. 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. Only 10% under those circumstances go on. He wrote this graphic novel that I read about one of the most prolific serial killers in US history. And then, he just trails off. And, you know, my view about human nature is that it affords infinite potential for lightness and dark. And that we're not going to be shocked with anything-. And there behind the German lines is-. But, you know, over the entire ocean there's a lot of gold dissolved into the sea. And that was a question that had haunted my father for decades. And then, Othello goes and kills his own wife, smothering her with a pillow. There's you, and there's two other participants. God. And to approach it with kind of crazy joy, I don't know. It's 9:24 hours on June 17th, year 2003. The time now is 0836 hours. And in this one you get 0% going all the way. And in experiment number four, when the teacher has to hold the learner's hand down-, If the experimenter is not a scientist, but is an ordinary man-. And now that we're sort of just on the other side of that. I think I call it pince-nez, so I'm not sure. And Satan's like, "Well, I- I bet I can change his mind." Who's going to do this powerful piece of science. However, that leaves behind 20 million Germans. I actually did the first thing, but he saw my intentions and ran away." Probably have, but in case you haven't. That's historian Fritz Stern who also happens to be Fritz Haber's godson. And she said, "My ex boyfriend. Yes. So he decided he was going to invent a process to pay for these reparations by himself. Many of them after they were murdered. If any sizeable fraction actually acted on their homicidal fantasies, the streets would be running- running red. How many of them went into that kind of detail? Radiolab is produced by Jad Abumrad. Listen Now. Do we know? I knew she had a daughter and-. It comes to us from our reporter, Aaron Scott. You know [crosstalk 00:10:58]. It is- it is arguably the most significant scientific breakthrough of them all. He seemed calm. He won't answer me or nothing. And he says, "Can I come over and sleep on your couch? Well that's to [inaudible 00:19:32], just cut it out. Yeah, me too. And my father was recruited to the task force. And we didn't really come to any kind of agreement with the Haber thing. No, because if you couldn't afford a ticket for a play, you'd seen all the plays, in the 1500s, you could always go to a public hanging. And this is was the difference between Kaiser Wilhelm and, of course, Hitler's Germany. Well,the experiment requires that you continue. Go. Around this same time, officials in the US government are calling him a war criminal. 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