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Vol V, Issue 2
Date of Publication: April 25, 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20529/IJME.2020.051
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Letters
The Robin Hood dilemma: Is it ethical to use “unethical” means to achieve something good?
Abstract:
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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