Dawn of Eve

**Dawn of Eve** is an experiment led by Gretchen Klein. Thom, Dean Young, Daniel Faber, Susan, Alex, and Leonard Whitney are also affiliated with the project. Nora Reid and Linh Bach serve as confederates in the study.

Its control group is the Twilight of Adam study.

## Origin

Gretchen's former colleague, Lauren Sobel, mentions in Day Three that Gretchen had been fired 'last fall', and the plane crash takes place during the girls' summer vacation from school. This points to Gretchen either being fired for proposing the Dawn of Eve study to her fellow academics, or to Gretchen developing the experiment and receiving funding for it in a matter of 6-9 months.

It is indicated that Gretchen was watching the "Unsinkable 8" for a while before inviting them on the "retreat."

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## Hypothesis & Goal

The girls in the study will work better together than the boys in the Twilight of Adam study did.

The goal of the study is to prove that women are better suited to be leaders in the world, and that Gynotopia is achievable.

## Admissibility

Due to the nature of the study, in which the girls, who are minors, are unknowingly placed in a study that they did not consent to, it is hard to believe that a panel of scientists would be able to consider the data accurate or admissible. You would not be able to recreate the study because you would be open to a number of lawsuits.

### Subject Background

All of the people involved in the experiment are teenage girls -- except Linh, who dies right off the bat -- from the United States. This isn't the correct population sample when trying to prove something about women around the world in general.

### Biases

Gretchen selects each of her experiment participants by hand, and even plays favorites even though she knows that it isn't *praxis*.

Gretchen demonstrates a bias, so this isn't a blind study, and she is skewing the results.

### Criminal Aspect

Several crimes are committed over the course of the study.

## Marketing

* The girls were told different things about the Dawn of Eve retreat. Leah's family thought that she was in Montana. Many of the girls thought that they were going to Kona, Hawaii for a long weekend of female-centric learning and growth, as that is what they were told in the welcome video on the plane.
* Every seat on the plane had towels embellished with the Dawn of Eve logo.
* An itinerary was included with the swag bags they found from the plane wreckage. They are supposed to offer confidence workshops.

## Criminality

* Gretchen and her team commit several crimes with the so-called "experiment."

### Kidnapping

* All of the girls are taken from their families without being told their true destination. This may fall into federal jurisdiction given that they crossed state lines, and perhaps went to Latin America.

### False Imprisonment

* The girls are held in the underground facility for an indeterminable amount of time and are not allowed to leave or speak to their families.

### Child Endangerment

* The girls are faced with starvation, dehydration, food poisoning, and several other challenges over the course of the experiment, as well as emotional damage after the death of Jeanette.

### Child Pornography Possession

* They have many cameras hidden around the island. It is possible that they have shots of the girls undressing, masturbating, or of Toni and Shelby having sex. Since almost all of the girls admitted they masturbated at least once while on the island, the odds of one of them being caught on camera are higher.

### Assault

* Gretchen had the chocolate cake served on the plane laced with drugs that knocked them out for several hours.

### Child Exploitation

* The girls are used for Gretchen's advantage via the study, and it results in their unjust, cruel, and harmful treatment. The things they suffer on the island and at the facility are to the detriment of their physical and mental health.

### False Pretenses

* The girls were lured to the experiment via false pretenses. They had signed up for a luxury retreat, and were instead unknowingly kidnapped and forced to participate in an experiment that they did not consent to.

### Other Crimes

#### Involuntary Manslaughter

* A case could likely be made for the death of Linh being Gretchen's fault since it happened during the experiment.

#### Stalking

* It is suggested that Gretchen followed the girls lives for some time before they went on the "retreat."

#### Blackmail

* It is possible that they know that Martha committed perjury, Dot committed assisted suicide with her dad, and Shelby may run into some legal trouble for her part in Becca's suicide.

#### Torture

* Isolating the girls on the island with the aim to study them may be considered an 'intent to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering' upon another person within their custody or physical control.

#### Supplying Alcohol to Minors

* This one may be a stretch, but Jeanette's bag had weed edibles and vodka in it, and the plane had mini liquor bottles on board, though all of the other passengers were minors.
	+ Both the weed and the vodka were consumed by the girls

#### Theft or Identity Theft

* If it was Gretchen's team that sent Leah's birth certificate to Jeffrey, then they may be guilty of theft.

#### Solicitation

* Any crimes that Nora may have committed while on the island, such as attempting to smother Leah to death and trapping her in the deep hole, could be seen as solicitation since Nora was under their influence.

## Location

The retreat is supposed to in Kona, Hawaii.

Dean Young tells Leah that the facility is on an island near Peru. However, they are also able to obtain seafood from a specific location in California at Dot's request, as well as fast food. This may indicate that they are closer to the United States than to Peru. In Field Note #036, it is also mentioned that Takis are widely available in North America, but are harder to come by in other parts of the world.

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