There are countless examples of studies being pulled or research suppressed because the findings don't align with an agenda.

I would say most research is publicly funded, but often times that research is inaccessible without paying to view it, and in order to gain funding from public bodies, your objectives have to line up with their goals, and the results have to line up too in order for something to be published in a journal. There is gate-keeping at a funding level and at a publishing level, so that they can filter and shape the outcomes.

If you have entered a field with the best of intentions, in order to get funding, you have to toe the line or else your research will never get anywhere. This same tactic is employed in all facets of society, and I think a lot of it stems from our fiat-based system coupled with peoples mentality of 'just doing their jobs'.

The entire system needs to be rebuilt.