I remember hearing about people complaining that cochlear implants were damaging deaf culture, or something. A quick google turned this up as the first hit, which seems to be evidence that what I heard was somewhat real.
I’m pretty sure I have heard about people saying that technology for having unimpaired children is in some way ‘against’ the disabled.
An awful lot of people do not think straight.
It strikes me that having scientists deliberately lie as policy would have terribly, terribly bad secondary effects—enough people distrust sound science as it is. Therefore, I very much hope you were being sarcastic or something.