When the results of this study started to emerge, Milgram accused me of scientific misconduct. This is a very serious charge that Stanford had to investigate by law and that could have ended my career. I was required to give a group of senior Stanford professors all of the data we had collected over the last four to five years. Stanford investigated Milgram’s claim, found no evidence at all that there was any cause to question our results, and ended the investigation. But Milgram was not finished, and his next move was to write a collection of lies and publish them online. I decided at first,
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