"widely credited for the prosperity Hong Kong enjoys today … didn’t collect any economic data … [because] once the data were made available, officials would invariably use them to make the case for government intervention in the economy."https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-dearth-of-data-helped-hong-kong-succeed-11559944078?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=2 …
Similar logic behind the ban on federally funded gun violence research in the US