Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

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By PHILIP LATHAM Illustrated by Freas [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Astounding Science Fiction May 1959. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] This, be it understood, is fiction—nothing but fiction—and not, under any circumstances, to be considered as having any truth whatever to it. It's obviously utterly impossible ... isn't it? An interview with Dr. I. M. Niemand, Director of the Psychophysical Association for the Advancement of Science in New York, Dr. Niemand implications are discussed here in an exclusive interview with Dr. Niemand by Philip Latham. LATHAM. Dr. Niemand, what would you say is your main job? NIEMAND. I suppose you might say my main job today is to find out all I NIEMAND. Well, a sunspot is a form of solar activity. NIEMAND. I'm afraid I can't say just what a sunspot is. I can only falls in a cycle of eleven years? NIEMAND. The number of spots on the Sun rises and falls in a cycle of eleven years. That word NIEMAND. It means you can only approximately predict the future course NIEMAND. Scores of them. LATHAM. What is your opinion of these correlations? NIEMAND. Pure bosh in most cases. LATHAM. But some are valid? NIEMAND. A few. There is unquestionably a correlation between LATHAM. Now, Dr. Niemand, I understand that you have been investigating NIEMAND. Yes, I suppose some people would say so. NIEMAND. That's true. NIEMAND. We had to call them something. Named after the Sun, I suppose. NIEMAND. Well, they're common enough, goodness knows. As old as the NIEMAND. I'll try. Let's see ... remember that speech from "Julius Caesar" where Cassius is bewailing the evil times that beset ancient NIEMAND. Well, Shakespeare would have been nearer the truth if he had NIEMAND. That's right, in the Sun. I suppose the oldest problem in the despair, convinced that the origin of evil is too deep for the human mind to solve. Generally they have concluded that man is inherently wicked and sinful and that is the end of it. Now for the first time science has thrown new light on this subject. LATHAM. How is that? NIEMAND. Consider the record of history. There are occasional periods goal. Then suddenly— for no detectable reason —conditions are reversed. Wars rage. People go mad. The world is plunged into an orgy of bloodshed and misery. NIEMAND. What reasons? LATHAM. Well, disputes over boundaries ... economic rivalry ... border NIEMAND. Nonsense. Men always make some flimsy excuse for going to war. to war. They can't help themselves. They are impelled by forces over which they have no control. By forces outside of themselves. LATHAM. Those are broad, sweeping statements. Can't you be more specific? NIEMAND. Perhaps I'd better go back to the beginning. Let me see.... It suffering from a complex of symptoms, such as profound mental depression, anxiety, insomnia, alternating with fits of violent rage and resentment against life and the world in general. These people were deeply disturbed. No doubt about that. Yet they were not psychotic and hardly more than mildly neurotic. Now every doctor gets a good many LATHAM. Aren't such attacks characteristic of the stress and strain of modern life? NIEMAND. I'm afraid that old stress-and-strain theory has been badly overworked. Been hearing about it ever since I was a pre-med student at . Even as a boy I can remember my grandfather deploring the stress and strain of modern life when he was a country doctor practicing in Latham, it's time the stress-and-strain theory was relegated to the junk NIEMAND. A doctor must always do something for the patients who come to NIEMAND. Oh, yes. In a few cases in which I tried tranquilizing pills of remedies for a patient. To my way of thinking it is a lazy slipshod way NIEMAND. It was the beginning. In most instances patients reported the attack struck with almost the impact of a physical blow. The prodromal symptoms were usually slight ... a sudden feeling of uneasiness and life. One man said he felt as if the world were closing in on him. NIEMAND. The first thing that struck me was that the attacks all NIEMAND. Total strangers miles apart were stricken at almost the same NIEMAND. Naturally I said nothing of this to my patients. I did, however, take pains to impress upon them the necessity of keeping an simultaneous attacks of rage and depression all over southern NIEMAND. I was afraid the result would be that my old roommate would think I had gone completely crazy. Imagine my surprise and gratification on receiving an answer by return mail to the effect that he also had NIEMAND. We say an attack is simultaneous when one occurred on the east coast, for example, not earlier or later than five minutes of an attack NIEMAND. In every case of a simultaneous attack the Sun was shining at NIEMAND. No, no. The weather had nothing to do with it. I mean the Sun NIEMAND. It certainly did. It looked as if we were headed back to the NIEMAND. It was the old case of workers in one field of science being NIEMAND. It was really quite simple. But if it had not been for intensity of the attacks reported on that day. Then he laid out another obvious. LATHAM. In what way? NIEMAND. Why, because twenty-seven days is about the synodic period of NIEMAND. I said that the lines drawn down through the days of greatest mental disturbance slanted slightly. On this second chart the squares NIEMAND. Because the average period of solar rotation in the sunspot NIEMAND. Middletown was immediately struck by the resemblance between the chart of mental disturbance and one he had been plotting over the the chart of mental disturbance corresponded in a striking way with the NIEMAND. Very closely. You see it takes about twelve days for an NIEMAND. Apparently an S-Region is not particularly effective when it is NIEMAND. They are connected in this way: that sunspot activity and NIEMAND. We don't account for it. NIEMAND. Middletown says that the radio waves emanating from them are strongly circularly polarized. Moreover, the sense of rotation remains LATHAM. Does this mean that the mental disturbances arise from some form NIEMAND. We doubt it. As I said before, the charts show a lag of about NIEMAND. Our latest results indicate that probably no one is completely immune. All are affected in some degree. Just why some NIEMAND. An S-Region may have a lifetime of from three to perhaps a NIEMAND. Because the radio exploration of the Sun only began since the NIEMAND. I think we did get such patients previously but not in large started its rise to maximum about 1954. LATHAM. Is there no way of escaping the S-radiation? NIEMAND. I'm afraid the only sure way is to keep on the unilluminated sharply defined, since its effects are felt simultaneously over the NIEMAND. At the present moment there happens to be no S-Region activity on the Sun. But a new one may develop at any time. Also, the outlook for cycle had the highest maximum of any since 1780, but the present cycle NIEMAND. That is the logical outcome of our investigation. We are controlled and swayed by forces which in many cases we are powerless to resist. NIEMAND. The trouble is they seem to develop at random on the Sun. I'm LATHAM. How may a person who is not particularly susceptible to this NIEMAND. If you have a feeling of restlessness and anxiety, if you are Middletown believes that the Intense radiation recently

<question>:
What is Niemand's tone toward the 'stress-and-strain of modern life' theory?

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A Inconsistent
B Ambiguous
C Dismissive
D Vehement

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C