Unless I am mistaken, which is not outside the realms of possibility, I seem to have completed an application for approval from the university’s human ethics committee. It describes my intended first experiment, and promises that I will not cause my participants to experience physical discomfort, despair, fatigue, mistrust for authority, wanderlust, itchiness, or a crippling sense of the numinous wonder of all creation that makes them drop out of their normal lives to join an ashram, commune, or other intentional counter-cultural community.
The human ethics committee does not take documents signed in triplicate. It would be too easy to lose all three, so they take ten.
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