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Derren Brown reproduces the Milgram experiment.
Here is the original experiment:
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Milgram-Experiment-and-more-24-minute-documentary
Here is the original experiment:
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Milgram-Experiment-and-more-24-minute-documentary
We do what we're told.
We do what we're told.
We do what we're told.
We do what we're told.
We do what we're told.
We do what we're told.
We do what we're told.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075320/
Very disturbing, most people will do whatever they are told by an authority figure - doctor, lawyer, cop, politician, military officer - even though they know it's immoral / illegal / murderous / genocidal.
Also interesting is "The Stanford Prison Experiment" conducted by Dr. Phillip Zimbardo in 1971.
He then gathered them altogether in a conference room, played some videos of Hitler and other Nazi stuff, then told them that like the Germans during WW2, these students wouldn't be admitting to anyone that they came this far either.
Utter rubbish. Back it up with proof or retract it.
More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derren_brown
I've read alot into Mr. Brown and basically he IS dishonest about what he's actually doing in the sense that his presentations are clever (i.e. believable) misdirections. For example, he often implies that he's achieving the effect with some sort of persuasion and suggestion technique while in fact he is using much more mechanical and well-studied performance magic (especially mentalism) techniques. I know how he does about 80% of his stuff cuz I've bothered to read up about it and read all the books he's read but another 20% still baffles me. Overall I think he's brilliant at what he does.
That's a cop-out, the kind of thing certain people say to try to excuse wronging others.