To withhold data or studies for fear of somebody’s feelings getting hurt or people using scientific findings in a way the researcher doesn’t like isn’t scientific at all.

It isn't. But it's routinely common. In 2005 a Stanford School of Medicine Professor, John Ioannidis, did a meta analysis of scientific papers, mostly dealing with the field of medicine and epidemiology iir, and found that most of them were super sloppy or just outright fraudulent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Most_Published_Research_Findings_Are_False

Here's another article from physorg about 8 years later https://phys.org/news/2018-07-beware-scientific-studiesmost-wrong.html

But it's tough talking about because then sometimes people start looking at you like you trying to push an agenda like anti global warming or anti vax or some shit or they like, "Okay Kyrie."