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https://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm

Which has been done before.

Oof good point. You don't want to be compared to the Tuskegee Study.

And was a historic violation of medical ethics with damage that reverberates into the present.

I think it's fair to argue we are seeing this in real time right now around Covid and refusals by certain hospital systems to even let people try something like Ivermectin or other off label drugs.

It's worse than the analogy as in this case the "disease" clearly noticed it was being studied, which could have had catastrophic results and leave the disease better at hiding in the future.

This is SOP for the FBI. They've also gotten caught leaving a CSAM distribution network running after gaining control of it, for the same reason.