The Robin Hood dilemma: Is it ethical to use unethical means to achieve something good?

Indian J Med Ethics

Malpani Infertility Clinic, Jamuna Sagar, SBS Road, Colaba, Mumbai 400 005. INDIA.

Published: September 2021

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The website Sci-Hub (http://sci-hub.tw/) (1) offers access to medical and scientific research papers from all over the world to anyone ─ for free. So, what's the catch? There isn't one, except for the fact that this is an initiative by an enterprising hacker, Alexandra Asanovna Elbakyan, a Kazakhstani computer programmer, who has cracked the firewalls of the websites of medical publishers.

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