“Nervous? You only have 75 more to go.”

The Milligram experiment is almost as big a humbug as the Stanford prison experiment.

When the study was run without a “scientist”, but instead a policeman or military officer, the participants who went full voltage dropped from 90+% compliance to 90+% refusal. This completely contradicts the supposed “findings” that people uncritically obey authority.

After the war, a whole cottage industry of psychologists and philosophers tried to answer why it was that ordinary Germans could participate in horror. Simple, but wrong explanations like “humans obey authority uncritically” were in high demand.

Which is the opposite of what they should have been doing. The shock would actually re-enforce a memory. So, they should have been shocking correct answers. Because, when we do something and then get hurt, we remember the thing that hurt us.