I agree to strongly disagree.

There are strong ethical rules around including humans in experiments, and adding a 60+ year old programming language designer as unwitting test subject does not pass muster.

Also this experiment is —please tell me if I'm wrong— not nowhere near curing cancer right?

I don't expect an answer: "You're absolutely right" is taken as a given here sorry.

Poor Rob. This is almost as bad as when the US government gave those inmates syphilis