unethical

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It would be just as unethical for a therapist to use treatment to pressure someone into being LGBTQ+ as it is to use treatment to coerce someone out of being such an identity.

From Slate • Mar. 11, 2026

We thought flopping and foul-baiting made for unethical hoops, but those are but basketball misdemeanors; Adebayo’s big night was felonious.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026

That’s because recruiting patients with a rare and debilitating disease for a placebo trial can be difficult and unethical.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026

A now-halted plan to run a hepatitis B vaccine trial involving thousands of newborns in Guinea-Bissau has been criticised by the World Health Organization as "unethical".

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2026

He had a resident give the injections in their place, and on August 27, 1963, the three doctors wrote a resignation letter citing unethical research practices.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot