<p>Users do sometimes raise ethical concerns with regards to questions or answers on Cross Validated, &amp; I don't recall any occasion on which they were contested as being off-topic. <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5757/17230">Recently</a> an 'ethics' tag was proposed, though it hasn't yet been created. All the same, an unqualified equation of outlier removal to &quot;data tampering&quot; would likely be challenged here too.</p>
