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Since the government has trillions of dollars of our money, it is putting it to good use by fighting to assure that the public has the least amount of transparency possible. To that end, it has now asked the Court to make the public wait until May for it to start producing 55,000 pages per month and, even then, claims it may not be able to meet this rate.
The FDA’s excuse? As explained in the brief opposing the FDA’s request, the FDA’s defense effectively amounts to claiming that the 11 document reviewers it has already assigned and the 17 additional reviewers being onboarded are only capable of reading at the speed of preschoolers.
Meanwhile…
As the FDA tries to obtain months of delay, guess who just showed upon in the lawsuit? Yep, Pfizer. And it is represented by a global chair and team from a law firm with thousands of lawyers. Pfizer’s legal bill will likely be multiple times what it would cost the FDA to simply hire a private document review company to review, redact, and produce the documents at issue. Within weeks, if not days.
originally posted by: Zrtst
what exactly are they worried about if it is released? Its not like the MSM will pick it up and run with it...and those pesky govt HHS commercials will still play ad nauseum the same rhetoric of "safe and effective" that we hear in our sleep. And I will mention it to aquaintences and they will customarily scoff with "oh, you saw that on the internet, huh?" or "well, my nurse friend..." and "lets see that medical doctorate you've been hiding from me"
originally posted by: Silcone Synapse
a reply to: v1rtu0s0
In the UK even most of our classified stuff is released after 35 years..
Except for the really heinous # which is classified up to 100 years.
With this vaccine data-who wants to bet they release all the "clean" stuff for the first 89 years,then in year 90 they release all the stuff they should be imprisoned for.
I wonder if anyone will be around to even read it at this point.
originally posted by: AaarghZombies
a reply to: v1rtu0s0
Does anybody here have even the remotest idea of how long it takes to prepare 55,000 documents for release, or how chronically under funded and under staffed the departments that process these documents are.
There's no conspiracy here, there's just a bunch of over stretched people who can't make a deadline, and whose neck will be on the block if they accidentally release the names of a bunch of kids or something.
originally posted by: AaarghZombies
a reply to: nugget1
28 reviewers isn't remotely enough people.
Imagine if you were a parent and you're child's medical records were accidentally released to the entire world because someone got sloppy and dragged and dropped the wrong file into the wrong folder.
originally posted by: AaarghZombies
That number isn't how long they want to keep the data under wraps for, it's how long they estimate that it will take them to release all of the hundreds of millions of pages of data at the current staffing levels.
originally posted by: EndtheMadnessNow
I wonder if everyone knew of their safety offense record if more would question how much trust we should put in such a company.
Pfizer penalities
$3.75 billion settlement of multi-district litigation concerning alleged harms caused by its diet drug combination known as fen-phen
$975 million charge to cover legal costs, including 35,000 personal injury lawsuits alleging that the diabetes drug Rezulin, which had been sold by its subsidiary Warner-Lambert, caused liver damage
$894 million to cover litigation costs relating to its anti-inflammatory drugs Bextra and Celebrex
$490.9 million to resolve its criminal and civil liability arising from the unlawful marketing of the prescription drug Rapamune for uses not approved as safe and effective
$331 million to settle multistate litigation alleging that it paid illegal kickbacks
$288 million to cover the cost of settling multi-district litigation alleging that its smoking cessation product Chantix was linked to depression and suicidal behavior
Among many others...