In the 2025 BEI Winter School lecture, Dr. Ilene Wilets, an Associate Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Chair of its Institutional Review Board, led a discussion on Three Identical Strangers, where triplets were secretly separated and studied without consent. Using the film as a lens, she examined informed consent, research oversight, and parallels to the Tuskegee syphilis study. The session also traced the evolution of the Nuremberg Code and IRBs, showing how ethical frameworks are often built in the aftermath of harm. It shows why research ethics is not just academic, but deeply and irreversibly human. Watch the full lecture here.