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How can you categorize this as "not a human study"? They were experimenting on "the patching process" which is not some abstract concept, it's a system that humans designed and execute by individual action.

If it was not a human study, then why couldn't they just stimulate it on a computer where the maintainers are completely uninvolved? Obviously that's not possible. Why? Because they were studying the humans themselves. This is so clear even from the apology email that is the topic of this thread, I don't understand how people are still confused here.

This is not a US patent grant where simply adding "yeah that but on a computer" gives you an instant rubber stamp.