I picked one and looked it:

> were prosecuted by the state (albeit in Sweden) for true findings that harmed that ideology [9].

is a mischaracterisation. They were investigated at the insistence of a single third party (I found no indication of prosecution, fines, etc) for making public parts of medical data which potentially exceeded their guidelines and ethical constraints given for access.

This is a problem facing almost all epidemiological studies based on detailed data from small communities.