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I meant "endorse" in the sense that, unlike the Milgram experiment, there is no authority figure to take responsibility on your behalf.
Do you think it's a good idea?
If it will actually work, and there's no significant (as in at least the size of malaria being cured faster), and bad, consequences we're missing, or there are significant bad consequences but they're balanced out by significant good consequences we're missing, then yes.