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The Milgram Experiment
29 January 2010
Stanley Milgram's
Study of Obedience, commonly referred to as
The
Milgram Experiment, is a fascinating and rather alarming study of obedience to authority in human beings. I was linking to the documentary on youtube, however, the "video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by the Pennsylvania State University". This is very disappointing and makes no sense as for one thing, the experiment was done at Yale, and secondly, shouldn't universities be encouraging interest in this sort of thing? Well no, actually when I think about it I am reminded that universities exist mainly to enforce the status quo and ensure each generation of middle class scribes continues to serve the establishment. You earn a degree not by telling the truth but by telling them what they told you to be true. Hopefully you can download the torrent, it is more than worth the disk space.
Milgram discusses the experiment in his book
Obedience to
authority.
Derren Brown
reproduced the Milgram experiment in his show, "The Heist.""
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