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Agreed. Other historically influential experiments have been distorted through time. After having read The Lucifer Effect, I especially dislike how the Zimbardo experiment is usually framed.

However, I think you overstate the importance of these experiments in actual debates. As the blog post points out, these are anecdotes that are found in introductory textbooks. I trust that more advanced textbooks would be more cautious in their retellings.

I think it's more likely that the reason these stories are oversimplified is because it's easier to fit them into a narrative if you leave out all the caveats. That being said, I'm guessing most Intro Psych professors follow up these discussions with more nuance. They begin with these anecdotes to get the students interested but later talk about the counterarguments.

It's for the same reason debaters will begin a speech with a personal anecdote, dive into actual arguments and statistics, then come back to their original anecdote. Humans can remember information better if that information is part of a coherent narrative. If it helps students learn more about psychology, it might be beneficial to keep the stories as they are, as useful fictions.