a) Trying to understand historical events with many variables via deliberate scientific experimentation is a reasonable thing to do. b) The Stanford Prison Exp

a) Trying to understand historical events with many variables via deliberate scientific experimentation is a reasonable thing to do. b) The Stanford Prison Experiment has always been under a ton of scrutiny, and is a good example of flashy events heavily covered in intro psych courses that are viewed with a lot more skepticism in the professional community (so I have read, anyway). c) More info recently came out about it recently, actually: https://cosmosmagazine.com/social-sciences/new-evidence-shows-stanford-prison-experiment-conclusions-untenable https://cosmosmagazine.com/social-sciences/new-evidence-show... d) Repetition of scientific findings is one of the main pillars of science. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis