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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DISTURBING SUN By PHILIP LATHAM Illustrated by Freas under any circumstances, to be considered as having any truth whatever to it. It's obviously utterly impossible ... isn't it? LATHAM. Dr. Niemand, what would you say is your main job? eleven years. That word LATHAM. In what way? NIEMAND. It means you can only approximately predict the future course LATHAM. Haven't there been a great many correlations announced between LATHAM. What is your opinion of these correlations? NIEMAND. Pure bosh in most cases. LATHAM. But some are valid? fade-outs ... auroras ... things like that. LATHAM. Now, Dr. Niemand, I understand that you have been investigating LATHAM. You have broken new ground? LATHAM. In what way have your investigations differed from those of observed. LATHAM. Just what are these effects? NIEMAND. Well, they're common enough, goodness knows. As old as the terms. LATHAM. Can you give us a general idea? NIEMAND. I'll try. Let's see ... remember that speech from "Julius Caesar" where Cassius is bewailing the evil times that beset ancient Rome? I believe it went like this: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves that we are underlings." LATHAM. I'm afraid I don't see— NIEMAND. Well, Shakespeare would have been nearer the truth if he had put it the other way around. "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in ourselves but in our stars" or better "in the Sun." LATHAM. In the Sun? 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 LATHAM. How is that? for no detectable reason —conditions are reversed. Wars rage. People go mad. The world is plunged into an orgy of bloodshed and misery. LATHAM. But weren't there reasons? LATHAM. Well, disputes over boundaries ... economic rivalry ... border LATHAM. Those are broad, sweeping statements. Can't you be more NIEMAND. Perhaps I'd better go back to the beginning. Let me see.... It all started back in March, 1955, when I started getting patients 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 patients of this type. Such a syndrome is characteristic of menopausal fit into this picture. They were married and single persons of both sexes and of all ages. They came from all walks of life. The onset of ten days later the attack would cease as mysteriously as it had come and they would be their old self again. LATHAM. Aren't such attacks characteristic of the stress and strain of 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 ucla anthropologists have made in recent years is the discovery that primitive man is afflicted with essentially the same neurotic conditions as those of us who live a so-called civilized life. They have found savages displaying every symptom of a nervous breakdown among the Latham, it's time the stress-and-strain theory was relegated to the junk LATHAM. You must have done something for your patients— his office seeking help. First I gave them a thorough physical examination. I turned up some minor ailments—a slight heart murmur or a trace of albumin in the urine—but nothing of any significance. On the LATHAM. I suppose you tried tranquilizers? LATHAM. And this gave you a clue? 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 guilt ... hot and cold flashes ... dizziness ... double vision. Then this ghastly sense of depression coupled with a blind insensate rage at life. One man said he felt as if the world were closing in on him. Another that he felt the people around him were plotting his destruction. One housewife made her husband lock her in her room for fear she would injure the children. I pored over these case histories for a long time getting absolutely nowhere. Then finally a pattern began to emerge. LATHAM. What sort of pattern? morning and five in the evening. Then there were these coincidences— LATHAM. Coincidences? NIEMAND. Total strangers miles apart were stricken at almost the same moment. At first I thought nothing of it but as my records accumulated I became convinced it could not be attributed to chance. A mathematical analysis showed the number of coincidences followed a Poisson distribution very closely. I couldn't possibly see what daylight had to do with it. There is some evidence that mental patients are most LATHAM. What did you do? occurred to me: if people a few miles apart could be stricken simultaneously, why not people hundreds or thousands of miles apart? It LATHAM. With what result? 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 been getting an increasing number of patients suffering with the same did find that in many cases patients three thousand miles apart had been stricken simultaneously— LATHAM. Just a minute. I would like to know how you define "simultaneous." LATHAM. Which was? LATHAM. You mean if it was cloudy— LATHAM. That must have had you badly puzzled at first. LATHAM. In what way was Middletown of assistance? surprise he heard our story with the closest attention. I guess astronomers have gotten so used to hearing from flying saucer enthusiasts and science-fiction addicts that nothing surprises them any simply astounding. LATHAM. Can you describe this chart for us? intensity of the attacks reported on that day. Then he laid out another obvious. LATHAM. In what way? LATHAM. How was that? NIEMAND. I said that the lines drawn down through the days of greatest LATHAM. Why is that so important? NIEMAND. Middletown was immediately struck by the resemblance between the chart of mental disturbance and one he had been plotting over the LATHAM. But if these S-Regions of Middletown's are invisible how could LATHAM. I believe you said the periods of mental disturbance last for about ten or twelve days. How does that tie-in with the S-Regions? NIEMAND. Very closely. You see it takes about twelve days for an is twenty-seven point three days. LATHAM. I should think it would be nearer thirteen or fourteen days. NIEMAND. Apparently an S-Region is not particularly effective when it is LATHAM. How do you account for this? strongly circularly polarized. Moreover, the sense of rotation remains LATHAM. Does this mean that the mental disturbances arise from some form of electromagnetic radiation? NIEMAND. We doubt it. As I said before, the charts show a lag of about LATHAM. A question that puzzles me is why some people are affected by no one is completely immune. All are affected in some degree. Just why some LATHAM. How does it happen that you only got patients suffering from sharply defined, since its effects are felt simultaneously over the LATHAM. And so you believe that the S-Regions are the cause of most of 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. LATHAM. Could we not be warned of the presence of an S-Region? LATHAM. How may a person who is not particularly susceptible to this

<question>:
Which term best describes Latham's tone in the interview?

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A Neutral
B Skeptical
C Pressing
D Perplexed

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C