The Milgram experiments have been replicated many times in several different cultures. I wouldn't discount everything.
More recent critical analysis has poked a lot of holes in Milgram [0].
Important work no doubt but not quite the smoking gun it has been proclaimed to be.
[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/01/rethinkin...
> It’s a phenomenon that’s been used to explain atrocities from the Holocaust to the Vietnam War’s My Lai massacre to the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
This sounds an awful like the sentence in the Lifespan of a Lie:
> It has been invoked to explain the massacre at My Lai during the Vietnam War, the Armenian genocide, and the horrors of the Holocaust.
We seem to be using a lot of these experiments to explain the same things ...
It seems to me that a lot of the seminal social psychology studies happen around this time ...
I mean, just because it's in a psychology textbook doesn't necessarily mean that's it's BS... But that's not a decent standard. Even astrology clears that bar.