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Perhaps we can disagree on what constitutes transparency. Is the data release transparent if it does not include the full name and social security number of ea

• naasking 4y ago
  > Is the data release transparent if it does not include the full name and social security number of each participant? Surely that information would allow additional analysis No, that has no medical, public health or accountability benefit, and you know very well that this isn't the data the scientists are requesting be released. > The nuisance part of the suit was in data that required painstaking redaction, without a strong argument for benefit. The strong argument for benefit is that the public deserves to have a independent, public accounting of the processes that led to vaccine approvals. This has significant implications for how public health should be managed going forward, how government mandates surrounding vaccines should be handled, and even how public messaging affects institutional trust and vaccine adoption. Secretive processes managed by an unaccountable elite/select group whose judgment of the data we must simply trust is not how science works, or even how government should work. Edit: and to be clear, the documents they were forced to release to date on adverse events during the trial are already raising some eyebrows, and no doubt much more debate is to come.