Duncan Bell is trolling

I know this has been said a million times, but some people online are simply the worst.

There was a famous social experiment done in the 1960s that I expect you’ve heard of. It’s notorious.

The Milgram Experiment was named after the doctor behind it, Stanley Milgram. Obvs. In it, a person would be ushered into a room with a big dial marked “electricity”, and told by a man in a white coat that this was an experiment in new teaching methods.

In the next room, unseen but audible over a loudspeaker, was the “test subject” – actually a chum of the man in the white coat, but the person sitting behind the big dial didn’t know this.

Long story short: most of the dial operators were more than happy to electrocute a stranger to death, because a man in a white coat said it was OK.

Conducted with memories of the Second World War still fresh in people’s minds, the Milgram Experiment was seen as proof that people will blindly follow “authority figures”, setting aside their own morality even to the point of becoming torturers and murderers.