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by foobarqux 994 days ago
Were they debunked? I thought that they only had some methodological mistake which made them inconclusive.
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> Zimbardo and his assistants ordered the guards to become cruel, and, moreover, that guards and prisoners alike knew what Zimbardo was trying to prove and were eager to help. [1]

[1]: https://www.wired.com/story/beware-the-epiphany-industrial-c...

I think the main problem is they weren't really "experiments" in the sense of proving anything meaningful, and serious attempts to do so did not replicate.
An experiment that has no scientific rigor can never have any meaningful results to draw conclusions from.