Many, many years ago which I was attending Mexico City College, a Catholic run school, I was told that a thesis proposal had been rejected for “political” reasons. The thesis would have explored pre-Christian practices in Mexico that had persisted into the Catholic era. One example was hanging umbilical cords from a “sacred” tree for the welfare of the infant.
And what would it have hurt to explore and learn from this practice? Squashed just for religious political reasons. I am sure a LOT of this has happened throughout history. Just look at the destruction of the Library at Alexandria. That destruction was based on faith. And it is not selective, every faith has done this throughout history. And they still manipulate and control knowledge when they can get away with it, especially if they are funding it. But when anything is trying to be proven as extremely “newer”, I immediately have suspicions about the source and desired outcome.