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Wow. Talk about a great way to fuel a conspiracy theory. Why could they possibly want to wait 75 years to release data on covid? Surely other nations are going

• jcranmer 5y ago
  It's because the people who are saying that the FDA needs to wait 75 years to release the vaccine data are at best writing statements that are misleading and at worst outright lying. The implication of that statement is that the FDA isn't going to release one iota of data for 75 years. That isn't anywhere close to the truth. What happened instead is that there's a court battle going on over a FOIA request against the FDA. The FDA is swamped with FOIA requests (it has ~400 pending right now), and the FOIA request in question asked for a gargantuan grab-bag data--over 300k pages of data. Redacting responses to FOIA requests takes time, and the FDA was proposing to drop ~12k pages by the end of the year, and then no fewer than 500 pages per month. It should be noted that the FDA's comment that it takes ~8 minutes to redact a single page for production, which is not unreasonable. So at a guesstimate, that's 20 man-years of effort to redact the response to this FOIA request. Maybe if you want to get your request finished in a reasonable amount of time, you should ask for something more than specific than literally everything the FDA has on the topic... or maybe instead the government's hiding something because it can't get it done by like tomorrow or something.
  • 14 5y ago
    Honest question why do they have to redact anything? Like what information is redacted? Why can’t they just hand over whatever they have? Is there something secret they are trying to protect? Honest question thanks