Should we discard achievements made by unlikable people?

[henryp]

But these particular experiments were well conducted and documented. The fact that they tortured people does not invalidate the data. It may taint it.

If you can't repeat the data, we have no way of knowing if they were either of those things. You just have to take the word of people who regularly manipulated data.

This is a weird argument, but even if the data/findings were suspect, you could take their findings and use it as a 'possible lead' of sorts in further experiments.