Summary:

The common assumption is that people must be lining up to participate in his studies. You may meet your soulmate sounds seductive on its face, after all. But once participants learn what that actually entails: years of blind dates, weekly blood draws, constant monitoring, endless poking and prodding… The fantasy collapses. Hope is appealing. Commitment to the process is not. After watching too many participants quit before meaningful data could be collected, Shane did the only thing that made sense: He became the lab rat. It went on for years. Painful ones. Suffering for the sake of knowledge. Maybe that’s the bargain science demands. Shane is one of the most successful researchers in the field, but he isn’t alone. Dr. Ilya Rozanov has been there the entire time.