This episode of Radiolab, titled 'The Bad Show,' explores the nature of human evil by examining real and psychological cases of violence, from Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiments to Fritz Haber’s morally ambiguous scientific legacy and the confessions of serial killer Gary Ridgeway. I
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