It seems everyone’s lining up to criticise Endemol for their management of this year’s Big Brother. Like I said in an earlier post, psychologists are all creeping out of the woodwork to declare war on what a few years ago they thought was a daring psychological/sociological experiment.

But it’s just getting laughable now. The latest claim is that Big Brother’s prison task is a dangerous mind game and might end up in torture - literally torture - for the housemates:

One expert claims the jail task is a copy of a notorious 1971 psychological experiment in the US.

In it, 24 students became “guards� or “prisoners� — and the prisoners ended up being TORTURED.

Sociology prof Rob Green said: “Things could get out of hand. This very dangerous stunt could cause lasting psychological harm.�

Pleeease wise up, people! Have you ever heard such rubbish? After the amount of flack BB producers have taken recently, do you think they’d allow housemates to physically and mentally torture each other?

Tellingly, Professor Green spares us the details of how he thinks the latest task might erupt into massive Human Rights violations for the housemates. My suspicion? He’s just jumping on the “Kick Endemol” bandwagon.