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The March 1 front-page feature reported that Alexander Gordon ’06 had once participated in a five-day “sleep and sensory deprivation study” at Massachusetts General Hospital, in which he was “placed in a cell with dim, unchanging light...
A hospital representative was unable to confirm this week whether the experiment occurred.
The trouble with the article is the complete credence The Crimson gave to a story that had some fairly far-fetched sounding elements. The reporter should have attempted to contact the hospital or the researcher to verify the story.
“I think a few kids actually got hypothermia and one kid hit his head and had to go to the hospital, so they called the races on Saturday for safety’s sake,” Johnson said.
In an interview with The Crimson in October, soon after he had announced his plan to resign as Dean of Harvard Medical School (HMS) effective this July, Joseph B. Martin said, “I want to be remembered first as a dean of students.” With this...