Yep. As long as academia relies on funding from the private sector this will always be the case.

Companies have no interest in funding research unless they get precisely the results they want out of it. A refusal to twist and cherry-pick the results when this isn't the case often leads to the company interrupting any collaboration (and funding) with the research group in favour of more "compliant" ones.

Some fields (and companies) are worse than others in this regard, but generally speaking this is the very sad state of things.