Originally Posted by friedablass

I would not call spending 5 minutes of my time checking a corporate code that I was told can be used by anybody, "research". I hope people that really do research spend a lot more time than that on their topic of interest. And, as I have previously noted, when the exact nature of the use of these codes came to light I declined to use them (unlike others who have no compunction using them...). Being naive about something and then becoming enlightened when further information comes to the forefront, doesn't make you a criminal or deserving of condemnation.