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Re:New evidence challenges the story of the Stanford Prison ... by maym86 on Sunday August 19, 2018 @10:11PM (#17797305)
Why do you ask? Do you think it's unusual to question something when new evidence comes to light? Seems entirely reasonable to share updated information on a very well known study.
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Re:New evidence challenges the story of the Stanford Prison ... by boomboomsubban on Sunday August 19, 2018 @10:44PM (#17797407)
Why was the evidence covered up for so long? What changed to have it come to the light? It's reasonable to reevaluate with new information, it's also worth questioning why there's new information
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Re:New evidence challenges the story of the Stanford Prison ... by hellllllllooo on Sunday August 19, 2018 @10:48PM (#17797419)
Agreed, but that wasn't what OP asked. It just seemed like an odd question given the headline explains that the reason this is being discussed is because there is new evidence available.
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Re:New evidence challenges the story of the Stanford Prison ... by boomboomsubban on Monday August 20, 2018 @07:19AM (#17799065)
New evidence doesn't answer their question, why is their new evidence coming out to discredit this study now?
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Re:New evidence challenges the story of the Stanford Prison ... by hellllllllooo on Monday August 20, 2018 @12:44PM (#17801449)
Q. "Why is there a push to discredit this study, seemingly all of a sudden?"

A. New evidence is available as stated clearly in the headline.

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Re:New evidence challenges the story of the Stanford Prison ... by boomboomsubban on Monday August 20, 2018 @02:25PM (#17802449)
New evidence is the way the study is suddenly being discredited, it is not an answer to why it is happening.
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Re:New evidence challenges the story of the Stanford Prison ... by boomboomsubban on Monday August 20, 2018 @09:39PM (#17806078)
Little more, we're basically disagreeing on what the question asked was. How cynical do you have to be to assume the question asker didn't even read the headline?
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Re:New evidence challenges the story of the Stanford Prison ... by lozenge on Monday August 20, 2018 @03:57AM (#17798340)
The article explains that. Previously it was hearsay, now raw audio and video evidence is available.
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Re:New evidence challenges the story of the Stanford Prison ... by boomboomsubban on Monday August 20, 2018 @07:14AM (#17799041)
That isn't an explanation. It's not like the video and audio evidence was just recently made, why was it withheld and what changed?
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Re:New evidence challenges the story of the Stanford Prison ... by lazyasciiart on Sunday August 19, 2018 @11:05PM (#17797459)
That "new evidence" came to light in 2017. An entire book has been written and published since then. So why now?
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Re:New evidence challenges the story of the Stanford Prison ... by sarah180 on Monday August 20, 2018 @07:04AM (#17798992)
Are you suggesting some conspiracy? 2018 comes after 2017. This is not a long gap in time for academic research.
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Re:New evidence challenges the story of the Stanford Prison ... by reitanqild on Monday August 20, 2018 @12:39AM (#17797770)
Maybe because it was successfully silenced the first time?

This is huge IMO and I haven't heard about it until now so I think it is good that is being pushed again.

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Re:New evidence challenges the story of the Stanford Prison ... by maym86 on Sunday August 19, 2018 @11:13PM (#17797479)
Why? Why not? Why? Why not?... It's interesting.
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Re:New evidence challenges the story of the Stanford Prison ... by lozenge on Monday August 20, 2018 @03:59AM (#17798345)
The author wanted to reach a new lucky 10,000. https://xkcd.com/1053/
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