According to kant's theory of universalizability, the ethical worth of an act is determined by whether a person:

I believe the answer is: would want everyone to perform in this manner

Ethical is a standard of good behaviour that expected to do by a certain people. In research, non-ethical behaviours do not necessarily resulted in bad conclusion for the research. But it would potentially endangered or angered the subjects in certain way that might ended up in legal dispute.

step 1. boil eggs

step 2.eat eggs

step 3. get your hot poonts ready