Interesting, in the discussion of the preprint he writes > Minimally, it should be immediately possible for the NIH to determine the date and purported reason

Interesting, in the discussion of the preprint he writes > Minimally, it should be immediately possible for the NIH to determine the date and purported reason for deletion of the data set analyzed here and then he goes on to say the thing about the trust of the NIH being abused. The tweets and the preprint are from the same day, so it appears he indeed mostly just ignores the fact there is a know and plausible reason for the data being taken down.