Rather, the study shows that people are easily manipulated by a belief in Science with a capital S. To quote one of the articles, "he actually did around 30 s

Rather, the study shows that people are easily manipulated by a belief in Science with a capital S. To quote one of the articles, "he actually did around 30 studies and obedience varied between 0 and 100 per cent… ...Reicher pointed out that only the final one of these phrases is a direct order, and in fact none of Milgram's participants continued with the study after hearing this order." I don't recall in the study whether the shockers knew the shockeys or volunteers but I bet they thought they were and thus they thought they were trying to help advance science. Since so many people dropped out after hearing pain in the shockees, I'm guessing that if we were to try to replicate the study scientifically and without looking for confirmation bias, we would find entirely different results.