When my husband and I were out today doing some after Christmas sale shopping, I remarked that I felt really exhausted and he told me that he’d been secretly running an experiment on me by mixing decaf coffee beans with the regular coffee. I’d been drinking half-caffeinated coffee for a week without my knowledge. My husband admitted that he’s violated basic principles of bioethics for human experimentation, since he did not run his experiment by an Institutional Review Board and I did not sign any sort of release form or know that my coffee had been fiendishly adulterated.
All this time, I’d actually been drinking a second cup of coffee in the morning and still feeling tired. I thought it was because I was sick. Now I know the truth.