My initial (gut) reaction was to say yes, but the more I think about it the more I realize that my initial reaction was wrong ...
Most fields of study have very little to learn from using unethical methods, and most that do tend to be able to find a work-around their unethical methods within a reasonable timeline (usually as the result of developing a greater understanding of what they are working with), and most of the ethical problems we see researches deal with are a result of accurately measuring, reporting and publishing data. For every "monkey butler" we gained from ethics being removed from science, we would likely lose hundreds of other advancements due to the resources wasted investigating scientific dead-ends do to the unethical reporting of false results.
