Legume wrote:- Here's an interesting hypothetical situation for you ... There was an article about this sort of moral dilemma in the Daily telegraph (UK newspaper) a while ago. It was called "Citations of shame". It was about scientific articles that use results got by that sort of unacceptable means. One example that I read of is that (some modern work on designing immersion suits for people who fall into cold sea) uses results on immersion in cold water that were done in a wartime concentration camp and published in a German scientific periodical.