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Re:The Lifespan of a Lie – Why can’t we escape the Stanford ... by neuromantik8086 on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @12:54PM (#17295174)
There are some folks who are pretty dead set on maligning Milgram alongside Zimbardo. Namely, Gina Perry wrote a book criticizing Milgram and his experiment's validity [1]. I haven't read it, but looking at some of the reviews, it seems most likely that it's a mixture of truth and the typical schlocky scientific journalism I've come to know and revile. [2]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Behind-Shock-Machine-psychology-exper...

[2] Funny anecdote- when I was still in science (brain imaging) a reporter from a major news outlet interviewed another member of my lab about what brain activity would look like in a dead person's brain. The question was entirely serious.

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Re:The Lifespan of a Lie – Why can’t we escape the Stanford ... by hithereagain on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @01:27PM (#17295571)
[2] Brain activity appears to continue after people are dead, according to new study. (9 march 2017)

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/what-happens-die-...

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Re:The Lifespan of a Lie – Why can’t we escape the Stanford ... by neuromantik8086 on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @11:21PM (#17299976)
The news article you cite is a bit over dramatic- the distinction between clinical and brain death has been around for a while. None of what is in there is really news, although it might be somewhat remarkable if they found activity 10 minutes out; then again, this is research from the medical community, which as others have pointed out is often quite methodologically flawed.

You too are being slightly too generous towards scientific journalism- a typical non-scientific audience wouldn't make the distinction between clinical and brain death, and the reporter likely wasn't either.

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Re:The Lifespan of a Lie – Why can’t we escape the Stanford ... by zwischenzug on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @01:01PM (#17295270)
Might [2] have been related to this?

https://www.wired.com/2009/09/fmrisalmon/

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Re:The Lifespan of a Lie – Why can’t we escape the Stanford ... by neuromantik8086 on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @01:12PM (#17295405)
You might be giving the reporter too much credit. It's very unlikely that she was familiar with that study before asking her question.
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