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The Lucifer Effect is a great book. It's thesis is "what makes good people do bad things". I recommend it to anyone considering doing bad things, or to anyone who knows good people who do bad things.

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that book [0] appears to be mostly a re-telling of the situation, enactment and repercussions of the Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) with some speculative material tacked on the front and back of that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lucifer_Effect

And the Stanford Prison Experiment was somewhere between an extraordinarily poorly designed experiment and an outright hoax.

Have you read the Lucifer Effect? It seems like you might not have read the book.

Does the book contain an apology for perpetrating the hoax? If not I’m not particularly interested.

The Stanford Prison Experiment is the kind of thing that gives the entire field of psychology a bad reputation. It’s literally used as a case study in how not to design experiments.

I'm pretty sure we don't need to read his book to know that his experimental methodology lacks rigor and that the conclusions were not supported reliably by the evidence.

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