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originally posted by: ScepticScot
a reply to: Narvasis
Or you could just look it up
www.techarp.com...
originally posted by: TruthJava
originally posted by: ScepticScot
a reply to: Narvasis
Or you could just look it up
www.techarp.com...
"In its proposal for a 55-year timeline, the FDA noted that the branch that would handle the request has only 10 employees, and is currently processing around 400 other FOIA requests.".....
I looked it up, and YES - essentially they were asking for that amount of time. So...as stated in the OP...
55 years
originally posted by: andr3w68
a reply to: ScepticScot
Your link contains some of the same information with a very pro-narrative spin on it. It even tries to make the claim that more time would have to be spent redacting the information within the documents than it took for the initial approval process, and that there are valid reasons for this. In my opinion, that's ridiculous. The only information that should be redacted are names and trade secrets related to manufacture, unless something nefarious is going on. So, what your article is saying is that it should and is reasonable for it to take longer for them to sharpie out some names and a few processes than it did for them to approve it for use? There is an ABSURD level of mental gymnastics required to have that make any logical sense. Think about it. One action has the lives of millions at stake and if done properly would have included a board of people pouring over the data and weighing circumstances once it had been thoroughly dissected, the other is mindless drudgery with a permanent marker.
I have an idea... if you don't have the people or time required to redact the files, how about have an AI do it... they use them for all sorts of stuff these days. Seems like something right up their alley.
originally posted by: MiddleInsite
Sorry, if you can't find out yourself, why make us do the work
And you seem to have an agenda. Am I wrong?
originally posted by: strongfp
a reply to: ScepticScot
Pfizer whipped up a vaccine in less than a year. Why can't they whip up a team to analyse and go over all the data just as easily?
Boggles my mind sometimes how humans go from one extreme to the other, we either achieve great things in such a small amount of time with no care in the world but to just get it done, but then other times it takes us years and years and mountains of bureaucratic paperwork to get something as simple as going over data and documents.