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A group of scientists and doctors sued the Food and Drug Administration under a Freedom of Information Act that urges the agency to release 400,000 pages of information pertaining to the approval of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.
Aaron Siri of Siri & Glimstad represents the plaintiffs in the case. He has used his Substack platform to inform followers about the FDA’s apparent attempt to withhold data. He posted that the agency asked a federal judge to “make the public wait until the year 2076 to disclose all the data and information it relied upon” to license the vaccine.
“The federal government mandating that millions of people be injected with a liability-free vaccine requires complete government transparency – not the government’s suppression of information,” read a brief from the plaintiffs, Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency. The brief continued, “The FDA wants to wait until most of those scientists are long since dead to fully release the data. News outlets, politicians, and scientists have called the FDA’s position ‘outrageous.’ They are correct.”
The plaintiffs want all the relevant data in 108 days—the same amount of time they say it took the FDA to approve the vaccine, Reuters reported. (See: “FDA & BIG PHARMA, ONE BIG CLUB,” “NEW FDA HEAD STUCK IN REVOLVING DOOR,” and “AMERICANS GETTING SCREWED: FDA IN BED WITH PIG PHARMA.”)
Suzann Burk, who heads the FDA’s Division of Disclosure and Oversight Management, in a declaration filed with the court said the agency is required to review “all responsive records before producing them in response to a FOIA request.” She said it will take about eight minutes per page to appropriately review.
Siri called the FDA’s position “dystopian” since the government gave Pfizer billions, “mandate Americans to take its product, prohibit Americans from suing for harms, but yet refuse to let Americans see the data underlying its licensure,” Reuters reported.
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The FDA claims collaboration with the drug industry is necessary and helpful. But the critics believe that such closeness constitutes a breach of an ethical barrier between the regulators and those they are supposed to regulate.
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As we had noted, the former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb is now on the board of directors of Pfizer, the Big Pharma drug dealer. According to reliefweb.int, Peoples Vaccine Alliance reports that Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna make $1,000 vax profit every second.
The Alliance’s review of the drug dealer’s financial statements, estimates that between the three companies, they will make pre-tax profits of $34 billion this year. They also note that five drug lords of these companies became new billionaires since the COVID War began, with a combined net wealth of $35.1 billion.