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This the same FDA that was going to take 75 years to release the data on a vaccine that is defacto compulsory because they lacked the resources to do so?
by willcipriano 4y ago
This the same FDA that was going to take 75 years to release the data on a vaccine that is defacto compulsory because they lacked the resources to do so?
- shadowgovt 4y agoYes, because regulating and authorizing drugs and food are their primary mission and support for FOIA requests is done at the legally-mandated level. This is not particularly contradictory or surprising; the amount of data that was FOIA'd would take 75 years to emit at the rate of 500 pages a month (that might even be a reasonable rate, given the risk of leaking PII in the raw disclosure of medical trial data; each page being emitted should be seen by human eyes, ideally human eyes familiar with PII concerns). The legal orders were changed to mandate a 55,000 pages per month rate and the disclosure should now wrap up before the end of this year. I have no idea what the PII controls look like.
- SkyBelow 4y ago>This is not particularly contradictory or surprising That may be true, but it is still telling that we can only get information from a government agency because they are legally forced to give it to us and they will do so in a way that is as disruptive as they can be. This isn't related to this FOIA request, but to FOIA in general and the issue that FOIA was even needed to begin with. It denotes a lack of transparency and trust, one which has fed into many not trusting the government and builds a question of what extent it should be trusted even today. This factors into far more than just vaccine related discussions.