 Why was Ferris against testing the discovery made by himself and Mitchell on himself?
But Macklin is exactly what we need for a quick, dramatic test. "When we prove our results that should be of enough practical value for anyone. Our reputations don't go outside our own fields," Mitchell said. "But now Macklin—" Elliot Macklin had inherited the reputation of the late Albert Einstein in the popular mind. No one knew whether his Theory of Spatium was correct or not because no one had yet been able to frame an argument with it. The government took up a lot of his time using him as the symbol of the Ideal Scientist to help recruit Science and Engineering Cadets. For the past seven years Macklin—who was the Advanced Studies Department of Firestone University—had been involved in devising a faster-than-light drive to help the Army reach Pluto and eventually the nearer stars. Mitchell had overheard two coeds talking and so knew that the project was nearing completion. "He's always treated me like dirt," Ferris said heatedly. "Doctor, we understand you have severe headaches," Mitchell said. "But think," Ferris interjected, "what a boon it would be if everyone could be cured of headaches forever by one simple injection." "Aspirins would still be used to reduce fever and relieve muscular pains," Mitchell said. "There are a number of different causes for headaches—nervous strain, fatigue, physical diseases from kidney complaints to tumors, over-indulgence—but there is one effect of all of this, the one real cause of headaches," Mitchell announced. "We have definitely established this for this first time," Ferris added. "The virus," Ferris explained, "can easily be localized and stabilized. "We want you," Ferris told him. Unless we can produce quick, conclusive and dramatic proof of our studies we can get no more financial backing. "When your heart stops, your blood pressure goes to its lowest point," Mitchell said. Ferris and I are confident that there is no danger.... By established periodic cycle he should be suffering hell right now, shouldn't he? The public will hand down a ukase demanding our virus, just as they demanded the Salk vaccine and the Grennell serum." Is it so expensive to refine you and Ferris have to recruit new customers to keep yourselves supplied?" Jerry, their control in the experiment, who was practically Dean's twin except that he had received no injection of the E-M Virus, was stomping up and down punching his fingers through the wire, worrying the lock on the cage.
 Because it was unethical.
 Because it was too dangerous.  Because it was unethical.  Because he had a headache.  Because they were underfunded.