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CrushBugsays...The only one I was not sure about was the Stanford Prison experiment. I have read a few things on it, and I am not sure who could have expected the results. From what I remember, most of the people were shocked at how brutal the subjects went after such a short time.
Now the elementary school teacher who reenacted it with Reds and Blues in her class, over a period of a few hours, that person should have known better.
bmacs27says...I'm curious if this video has an agenda. Certainly we all agree that experiments (particularly on human subjects) need to be carefully scrutinized. At this point we have agreed upon rules of proper conduct largely in response to some of these experiments and their global impact. It was a very different time.
Is the video meant to suggest that this sort of activity still persists in the west? It seems to be edited in the style of a modern propaganda film with its emotionally jarring hard cuts, eerie music, and so forth. It's fine to do a gentle "reminder piece," but this feels more like it's intended to encourage further distrust of science. Don't we have enough of that?
CrushBugsays...Actually, that didn't make me distrust science, rather the CIA. =)
I think the video shows what happens when government sets the agenda of the research. Not sure if any of these would have happened (well, OK, Stanford would have) if it was just pure research based on scientific curiosity.
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