I had repeatedly tried to dissuade her from her dangerous experiments, but had not succeeded. She had continued with lab animals until it was obvious she could do as she claimed. At that point, it was foolish to order her to stop research as I had planned. All the approbation and kudos that would be mine as head of the lab would be claimed by whatever researcher who discovered the process in the future. What we needed, she kept telling me, was a human subject to test the hypothesis. She assured me that there’d be virtually no risk to the subject, each element of her hypothesis had been extensively tested on the lab animals.