I'd like to say I'm nobody's lab rat, either.

[But it's hard to remain optimistic about that on a bad day.]

...They involve people being attacked and drugged by robots and dragged away. From what I hear, you end up in a sort of research facility in a cage where they...examine you, or run...tests. For what, I don't really know. Sometimes people come back different. Injured or missing something or transformed. Seems it almost always wears off, for what that counts for.