The most horrifying revelation in psychology: In Stanley Milgram's 1960s obedience experiments, ordinary people—teachers, secretaries, engineers—sat trembling, sweating, and protesting as they believed they were delivering increasingly dangerous electric shocks to an innocent stranger who screamed in pain, begged to stop citing a heart condition, then fell deathly silent.
Yet, under the calm pressure of an authority figure in a lab coat saying "Please continue—the experiment requires it," 65% went all the way to 450 volts (labeled "XXX Danger: Severe Shock"). No force, no threats—just authority in an unfamiliar setting.
Behavioral expert Chase Hughes calls this a masterclass in influence: novelty + perceived expertise can override our deepest moral instincts in under an hour, without any scripted "magic words." It explains white coat syndrome, blind trust in experts, and why good people sometimes do unthinkable things.
The ethical cost was immense—participants left traumatized, forever questioning their own character—and it revolutionized research rules forever.
Attached: 3:45 clip of Hughes' chilling breakdown
So all those best before dates on your cans, stuff that is in all likelihood perfectly fine to eat, we toss out because it has some made up best before date affixed on the package. Feeling deceived? It just never seems to end does it?
If it's not bogus expiration dates, it's being lied to by this guy, that person, and whoever ever else wants to extract money out of your wallet! Frustrating, isn't it?