Disturbing fact: The Stanford prison experiment, run by Philip Zimbardo, wasn't reproducible but that didn't stop Zimbardo from using it to promote his ideologies about the impossibility of rehabilitating criminals, or from becoming the president of the American Psychological Association.

The APA has a really good style guide, but I don't trust them for actual psychology.

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chatmasta a day ago | parent | next [-]

Has anyone tried to reproduce it? Good luck convincing an ethics review board to let you try that again.

Meanwhile, it’s been reproduced “in vitro” in numerous episodes of atrocity, e.g. Abu Ghraib…

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dlcarrier 20 hours ago | parent [-]

A reality TV show tried, because they have more practical ethics requirements than academic institutions, and were able to run the study as long as everyone agreed to be there and there was no sign of abuse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Experiment

Also, how do you italicize text in your comment?

	▲	chatmasta 20 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Also, how do you italicize text in your comment? HN will italicize any string between a pair of asterisks. [0] > practical ethics requirements Practical ethics requirements :) [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

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runarberg 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes, the APA certainly has a lot to answer for in their history. The Guantanamo Prison torture scandal is still fresh in my memory.

https://www.democracynow.org/2007/8/20/apa_members_hold_fier...