The movie THE MATRIX was clearly scifi entertainment. It was a WHAT IF. Here's another. WHAT IF earth is just a research lab for scientists?

Other-world scientists. We're just specimens in petri dishes controlled by others for whatever purposes they deem fit. They try this and that and test this and that and we react thusly or don't. A giant lab since it was "born". Now IF IT WERE so then all of this petty irrelevant unimportant stuff we experience that causes us to hate or despair are thrust upon us by others just to see how we will react. We have no will or part in any of it. We are just there for the pleasure and use of others. How important are specimens?