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And he did too. And he says, "That's what people wanted. And oddly enough, we came- got a really interesting take on the true nature of badness from this guy. Then, we reconsider what Stanley Milgram's famous experiment really revealed about human nature (it's both better and worse than we thought). 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. You know what? And they're behind the German lines is-. And, you know, my view about human nature is that it affords infinite potential for lightness and dark. Today's date is, uh, June 17th. Clara, also from Breslau, also from a Jewish family. What did you remember since we last talked [inaudible 00:57:19]? He wrote this graphic novel that I read about one of the most prolific serial killers in US history. Visit our website. He is- he wants to feed- he wants to feed Germany. 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. He said, "Look, this is what you're going to do is of course you don't want to do this. And I designed a little questionnaire where I simply asked the students, "Have you ever thought about killing someone?" His calculations showed that it couldn't be done. Thank you to Jim Shapiro, whose most recent book is called Contested Will. She was actually a sort of a genius herself. It was about how far would these people go? If those two participants refused to go on-, Saying like, "I don't want to kill a guy. Or nice chair? No. You know, uh, "I'm going to kill her.". And not to everybody's taste. Gary starts going through this narrative of what he did to Carol. I don't think I've ever had a fantasy that- that anatomically specific where I would see the part of the other person that I was going to stab or plan it like that. And, you know, it's a craft, but it's a craft with consequences. Like shocking an innocent stranger over and over. I mean you have to remember, during the Crimean War in the 1850s, Europe starves. It makes up four out of every five or so molecules that we breathe, so it's very-. God, 'cause it's like we started with this experiment that we all see as evidence of human's latent capacity of evil. So, who is- who is this guy right here? That's historian, Fritz Stern, who also happens to be Fritz Haber's godson. Mm-hmm (affirmative), Mm-hmm (affirmative). He won't answer me or nothing. Dylan Keith is our director of sound design. "This was exactly what was in my mind. September 15, 2022 Radiolab for Kids and WNYC Studios present Terrestrials, a six-episode miniseries hosted by Lulu Miller (co-host of Radiolab . That afternoon, he gets in his car, goes home, he finds my mom on the deck, sits down next to her. Hey, I'm Jad Abumrad. But what's clear is that he saw no reason to question what he had done and that infuriated Clara. I mean, I'm not suggesting one should, but I'm just saying there is a sense in which these people are prepared to do something that's very painful to them, and to someone else, because they want to promote science; well, you can see that's a good thing. Yeah. Rocket Mortgage by Quicken Loans. And he throws himself in one of the central issues facing Germany that at that time. He started calling me a whore and told me he didn't love me anymore. Those who could still breathe would turn blue. We'll be right back to Haber, but wait- wait. With help from Shima Oliaee, Carter Hodge, and Lisa Yeger. With higher and higher voltage. Go to audible.com/radiolab or text Radiolab to 500500 for a free 30-day trial and a few audiobook. 65%-, to shock their fellow citizens over and over again-. The questionnaires they filled out are part of the Milgram archive at Yale. All right, so I'm going to talk to you over this intercom, okay? This is a 20 year old female. Radiolab. So to speak. We're all great apes. Then suddenly the thought occurred to me that my life would be much happier without him in existence.". He buried them, or left their bodies in these little clumps in the woods-. I invited him for dinner 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. She was one of the first women to earn a PhD in her country. You mean they're looking at 20 million people going hungry? And they're both secularized Jews. Is that how you say that thing-. We begin with a chilling statistic: 91% of men, and 84% of women, have fantasized about killing someone. They wanted someone who was really thrillingly bad but, in the end, was redeemed a bit.". And-. And that's what Shakespeare did in all his plays. And what he decided to do is go into the ocean, into sea water, which contains very small levels of gold. And they ask for it to be reformulated to take out the warning smell. Speaker 2: Prosecution, [crosstalk 00:12:03] the Attorney General. He would give all his baddies at least one moment where they could be understood. So around the turn of the century for German scientists like Haber, this was the challenge. The son, eventually, after he emigrates to America kills himself. 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. But that's not what he found. Um, I got a little, uh, I- my- this is my dorsal hair stood up when I read the end of this. And every scenario produced a different result. This story made us wonder is David's friend, is he unusual? So, every day they would bring him into this conference room. We have kids in the- in the room. That's my opinion that's where I'm going to stand on it. So, how do you feel about him now because I don't know I can't help but feel bad for the guy? We ask deep questions and use investigative journalism to get the answers. As we continue listening to the Bad Show episode on human nature, our neighbors and ourselves, check out the Blank Slate by Steven Pinker available on Audible. I'm just trying to imagine that. But he is a large, very strong man with a black belt in karate. So, he ends up admitting it. 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-. No motives. 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. You went through this a lot of times before and she's already told you she's in a hurry. But he organizes soldiers, he organizes whole gas units. So you ask like, "Why do people do bad things?". Episode Discussion: The Bad Show. To the best of your memory, which word was matched with nice? Whether the learner likes it or not, we must-, What's interesting is that how all of these struggles, all of them-, Play out the same way. "Well why can't you deal with it in a normal way?". 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 . Now you're saying actually that you could read that, that very dark fact, as being actually evidence of something quite- quite noble. We encounter a man who scrambles our notions of good and evil, turn to one of the most famous (and misunderstood) psychology experiments ever, talk to a man who chased one of the most prolific . I would say in a powerful mood; we're close to some really fundamental truths about human nature. We've got to know now. He eventually goes to England. We just got to get ov- get out of it where-. Also from Breslau. What makes boys boys and girls girls. But I needed to kill her because of that. He didn't really want to cop to everything that he did. ", Meanwhile, later that night on the other side of town-. And in this one you get 0% going all the way. But he organizes soldiers, he organizes whole gas units. 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. Radiolab for Kids Presents: Terrestrials A show where we uncover the strangeness right here on Earth Romeo y Julieta A World Premiere Bilingual Audio Play. But it wasn't until a few years later that he learned something that really put what happened that night into context. But, you know, over the entire ocean there's a lot of gold dissolved into the sea. And not just yeses. He gets promoted to the rank of Captain. Very distinctive looking man, bald on top, trim nice mustache, wore a little [pince-nez 00:28:20]. I- I know it was more than [inaudible 00:59:44]. And in the trial, when the prosecutors essentially ask him, "How you came to commit genocide?" You're bad." And you know what? Nobody had done what he was about to do on the scale that he was about to do it. Just a little glimmer. He's bad. The most common source of nitrogen is in the air around us. What kind of tech company does the world need today? Well, all right. And then Othello goes and kills his own wife, smothering hew with a pillow. You know, you're not the first person that's ever done this. So- so first of all, could you just like, uh, when did he live and what did he look like and that kind of stuff? In that moment, my father, he stands up and he says-. Hi, I'm Robert Krulwich. And if they didn't go on, if they resisted [crosstalk 00:18:11] the experimenter would break out prod number two. Well I can use that same process-. Because you are sullied by them. He stirs up hatred between friends, between lovers. His health is failing in 1934, he takes a trip to Switzerland to a sanatorium-. The one that everybody knows, the so called baseline. The Germans were on one side, the French, the Canadians, and the British on the other. Because it's like we started with this experiment that we all see as evidence of humans' latent capacity for evil. A given episode might whirl you through science, legal history, and into the home of. You know what's going to happen if she [inaudible 01:02:25]. So, I'm just going to go into this other room over here. Here's what he did. What does he say? And it's kind of surprising. Yeah, I agree with that. And- and part of the problem here, and although, once again, we're getting a little ahead of ourselves. Of course normally just have one experimenter who's giving you these instructions. In 2016, Abumrad took a four-month break from Radiolab, in large part to recharge from what he's described as burnout from the years of making the show in his distinctly intense and very. The expectation is somebody is made to make his peace with his maker before he dies. A hero. And what he means is that when nitrogen atoms are just free floating in the air, they will cling to each other. He buried them or left their bodies in these little clumps in the woods. Like, how do you tell the real baddies from the rest of us? And that's what Shakespeare did in all of his plays. 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. Big questions are investigated . You can see this in the surveys that the men filled out after the experiments were over. I'll go along with this.". The Germans on one side, the French, the Canadians and the British on the other. And why I cared for her because I dated her before, but this day didn't turn out right. My point is sometimes when we ask the why in the face of profound evil I kind of wonder if what we're doing is that we're daring God to show himself. We want what Elizabethan's got at the scaffold, which was a confession. He would give all his baddies at least one moment where they could be understood. Hundreds of them were falling to the ground. Yeah. We asked, "Who do you think about killing?" And now that we're sort of just on the other side of that. And you find yourself in a situation where you've got to do something that's hard. And so, 1918 Fritz Haber gets a Nobel Prize, but this is why he's such an interesting guy. You walk into the room, what do you find? And so I went up to the bedroom to find him and he was in a rage. Let's go into our instructions. That is if you don't continue, we're going to have to discontinue the experiment. But that's just a- those are fantasies. To find page after page of yeses. The one that everybody knows, the so-called baseleine. And you know there's nothing a closet full of clothes to help balance that out. Yeah. That's historian Fritz Stern who also happens to be Fritz Haber's godson. And I designed a little, um, questionnaire where I simply ask the students, you know, "Have you ever thought about killing someone?" And you tell us, "Actually, no. They're supposedly chums, but General Othello has no idea that Iago-. And also a scientist. And everyone thought, "Well, we know the solution. 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." And there behind the German lines is-. So he sends a letter to the Ministry of Education resigning, and he leaves Germany. So he plans to destroy Othello. Right. In a lab at Yale University with a bunch of regular Americans. Obedience droops to about 40 percent [inaudible 00:15:40]. The subjects of 40 males between the ages of 20 and 50. You know, energy from the sun to grow crops. Every time that guy got the word wrong. He would deny things, he would obscure, he would dance around things. And he goes home for a few days. All rights reserved. Did members of Haber's family die in the concentration camps? They couldn't deploy it, they couldn't deploy it. And- and Iago? Accuracy and availability may vary. They wanted someone who was really thrillingly bad, but in the end, was, uh, redeemed a bit. What you know, you know.". And he finds her actually still alive, with the life about to run out of her. He walked out of the room and just started weeping. I killed her. Yeah, well. She expressed disapproval about his clothing choices. even past when they were screaming in pain. And 84% of the women. And so, we've decided that it's time to go back to something we did once upon a time when we were wondering about good and bad. The Bad Show Listen Transcript Image credits: Adam Cole Cruelty, violence, badness. 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. How many times would they shock that sad-. RadioLab is supported by Rocket Mortgage by Quicken Loans. And as it happens, my father has very vivid memories of investigating the Carol Christensen murder. We're going to meet her later. He says that he's gonna- He's always been hiring people based on how smart they are and not who their grandparents were. And that we're not going to be shocked with anything-. And so in 1918, Fritz Haber gets the Nobel Prize. [inaudible 00:21:03] just cut it out. It's the experimenter. Birds would just fall from the air. 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. And you have a number of chemical reactions. with the ideas that people would do bad if they think it's good, it's a good noble cause. That's it? Does he- is he saying what I think he's saying? So, around the turn of the century for German scientists like Haber, this was the challenge. 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. When I picked them up, I was going to kill them." in this episode we begin with a chilling statistic: 91% of men, and . He takes command of them partially, he travels to the front. Don't you think you should look in on him, please? The thing is that I do have a new boyfriend, but my ex-boyfriend doesn't know that yet, and I'm terrified that he'll do what he says. And when nitrogen and hydrogen bond together, the thing you get-. 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.". I invited him for dinner. Wow. You know, "I just want to kill her. "Oh, you tell me sir, yes sir, no sir, three bags full, sir.". This has allowed the world to have 7 billion people. You're going to keep giving him what, 450 volts every shot now? I dated her several times a year. Yes. Yeah (laughs). Leaving his son alone with his dead mother. And to make the problems even more annoying. After all, he knows what he can stand. And oddly enough, we got a really interesting take on the true nature of badness from this guy-. And he said, "To start, you want to know about bad? You know, just because of a mathematical summing up. Eugene [inaudible 01:07:32], Sierra Hahn, and everyone in the manuscript and archives department at the Yale University Library. In front of this really impressive looking machine. Yellow mucus was frothing out of their mouth, those who could still breathe would turn blue. And what is basically like the Baghdad of his time. I'm going to give you a little, uh (laughing). His experiment remains one of the most famous experiments of the 20th century. When you press one of these switches all the way down, the learner gets a shock. 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." Go on please. That's Fritz Haber's wife. You know, he does it without humility, without- without a lot of doubt. Sap in the next room just because they were being told to? There's a lot of black and white thinking happening right now. I'm about to help this quest for knowledge. Dan Charles, Sam Keen, Latif Nasser, Fred Koffman and Fritz Stern. Carries electric shocks. Why did you take these women off the streets and wanted to destroy them? 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