> No one was twirling their mustache trying to make people suffer. Someone had a lab, and prestige and control over funding and the best way to keep it all was by being dishonest.

The second sentence and the first sentence are merely literal and figurative descriptions of the same activity.

Also, for this to be true, it has to mean lab workers knew about progress but fucked over their own family with Alzheimers. And it has to mean every single one of them did this.

*Edit* Actually there's another way to interpret what you wrote. My mistake. I imagined a scenario where someone knew of progress and was dishonest by hiding it, but you might've been alluding to someone knowing an avenue wasn't fruitful but was dishonest by making it seem more fruitful.

I think the latter is easier to hide than the former since it doesn't require directly fucking over your family, merely very indirectly by siphoning off a fraction of total funds to be flushed down the toilet.