The point is that the university is providing equipment and allows this to take place in their labs.
Yup, it looks like a clear case of Scientist-itis to me. I had seen that before. Too much superhero histories.
Why would want the scientists to take part into such creepy thing? Do you really thing that they are so weird and creepy?
Now, you were saying something about weird and creepy? There's nothing creepy and weird about eugenics, fascism, nor meritocracy. Eugenics was widely accepted well before the "not-see" perversion as a way to better humanity.
You know what's really creepy? Stories and thier Storytellers. Facts/Truth, never creepy. Stories, always creepy.
Or we could ban the study of amphibian malformations and diseases by ideological reasons, and cry for all the frog species in the planet that will go extinct by ranavirus in the next five years. All because we didn't have galls to dissect a small dead animal and do something about it.
Would you prefer that, maybe?
And unlike scientific experimentation, these don't even come with any sort of broader social benefit. We let consenting adults mix wildly speculative breathing gasses so they can dive 500 feet underwater. Pretty much for no other reason than it's cool. Why not let scientists do the same if it might cure a pandemic that's killed millions?