Sorry, you're right, that's not the right way to say it. What I meant was deception is wrong regardless of whether it's part of an experiment. If the emails had

Sorry, you're right, that's not the right way to say it. What I meant was deception is wrong regardless of whether it's part of an experiment. If the emails had been sent out under different false pretenses, like criminals probing for weak points, it would have been just as wrong.