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Inane
Stereotyped characters. Too many unbelievable plot holes. We are to believe that an MD with a PhD is a tenured psychology professor who is the head of his department and teaches undergraduate courses but apparently has no graduate assistants so he puts an ad in the paper to recruit undergraduates to help monitor his experiment, which involves gassing subjects to stay awake for three weeks. The two he picks to monitor the subjects have no medical training. However, this is ok because they are wearing smart watches that record "heart rates and stress levels." The author implies that the professor is able to get around ethical issues because he is providing his own funding. Right. The psychology professor is also apparently unaware of APA guidelines prohibiting sexual relationships with students. The stupidity just kept coming so I stopped reading less than 40 pages in.
May 2020 · Books · verified purchase