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FDA to Release Pfizer Data, But the Devil Could Be in the Details

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Last month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) asked a Federal Court Judge to allow the agency 75 years to release all the data upon which it licensed Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine (Comirnaty). Earlier this month the FDA’s request was rejected.

The drug regulator had originally stated that it could only produce 500 pages per month, taking the end date for release of all the documents to 2096. Instead, the Judge ruled in favor of the plaintiff and ordered the FDA to expedite the release of the documents at a rate of 55,000 pages per month, taking approximately eight months.

Aaron Siri, U.S. attorney acting on behalf of the plaintiff that filed the lawsuit in September 2021, said it was a great win for transparency. “This removes one of the strangleholds federal health authorities have had on the data needed for independent scientists to offer solutions and address serious issues with the current vaccine program.”

The serious issues cited by Mr. Siri included waning immunity of the vaccine, variants that evade vaccine immunity, and the CDC’s assertion that the vaccines do not prevent transmission. Mr. Siri said it was particularly egregious that mandates have “coerced” people into taking an unwanted medical procedure as that violates basic liberties.

“The government also sought to delay full release of the data it relied upon to license this product until almost every American alive today is dead.  That form of governance is destructive to liberty and antithetical to the openness required in a democratic society,” said Mr. Siri.

The Judge Agreed

The Judge’s Order began by relaying the sentiments of former U.S. presidents and Senators.

“A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market, is a nation that is afraid of its people.” (President John F. Kennedy)

Further, “excessive administrative secrecy… feeds conspiracy theories and reduces the public’s confidence in the government,” (Senator John McCain)

The Judge noted that the purpose of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) was to “pierce the veil of administrative secrecy and to open agency action to the light of public scrutiny.” The Judge acknowledged the “unduly burdensome” nature of the FOIA placed upon the FDA but wrote that there was unlikely to be “a more important issue” for the regulator than the pandemic and assuring the public that the vaccine was not rushed.

The Order also noted that “information is often useful only if it is timely” and therefore the Judge insisted that the expeditious completion of the plaintiff’s request was not only practicable, but necessary. Therefore, the Court would impose its “equitable powers to require an agency to process documents according to a court-imposed timeline.”

Accordingly, the Court concluded that the FOIA request was of paramount public importance and requested that the FDA produce a redacted version of the data, ensuring that it redacted “only those portions as to which privilege, exemption, or exclusion is asserted.”

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Transparency advocates celebrated the Court ruling.

“Transparency is a core ethical principle of good public health, and data on which public health decisions are made need to be publicly available for independent analysis and critical scrutiny,” said Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, a member of the plaintiff. “The judge in this case clearly made the right decision. We will soon be able to see the data they were trying to keep from public scrutiny,“ he added.

Epidemiology expert Prof. Tom Jefferson, agreed. “I think it’s a huge step towards opening up the FDA. This is not just about the transparency of the Pfizer data, but other vaccines, that eventually, will become fully licensed,” said Prof. Jefferson who is also a member of the plaintiff.

“But, we need resources to have qualified people and supervised PhD students, who can index and curate the information so that a thorough analysis can be carried out by experts who understand regulatory data,” said Prof. Jefferson. “I am concerned that the random release of documents might result in people data-mining to look for a smoking gun and take information out of context,” he added.

Devil in the Detail

As the Pfizer documents are released, the FDA will have redacted information that it decides is not for public consumption. Prof. Jefferson says the FDA might redact blocks of important information, to the point where it becomes meaningless, so the devil will be in the detail.

“If the FDA redacts important information like batch numbers, then it will be difficult to identify which participants were potentially harmed or benefited most, by a particular batch of vaccines,” said Prof. Jefferson. “Or they might redact participant’s ID numbers making it hard to track how many adverse events that person experienced because each adverse event would be recorded separately.”

When asked if there was legal solution to inappropriate redactions made by the FDA, Mr. Siri said, “If the FDA make any improper redactions, we intend to challenge those in court.”


This article was reprinted with the author’s permission. It was originally published at MaryanneDemasi.comMaryanne DeMasi is an investigative journalist and TV producer/presenter. She is a former medical scientist. 

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8 Responses

  1. Does anybody besides me think that ALL the data can be released at the same time? It’s already one big file, compiled. It should have been released within 1 month after compilation and the injections halted until the data could be assessed. If even 1 person died from getting any mRNA injection, that is all the data I need to NEVER, EVER get these injections or any vaccines.

    The very fact that big pharma refuses to take any responsibility for the poisons they market to the public, tells me to run for the hills when anyone wants to provide me with any big pharma product.

  2. I’m a person who has been affected by the Pfizer vaccine second shot and feel strongly that ALL information must be shared so we as Americans will know the dangers that can be and is in our healthcare drugs. We can think for ourselves having the truth given by our physicians, who also have the truth, to make logical decisions in regard to our healthcare. What are they afraid of?

  3. None of it should be redacted! They need to be accountable for what they have put adults and children through the past two years with their lies and all those they injured and killed with this bio-weapon they call a “safe vaccine”. Let the Nuremberg Trials begin.

  4. They’re hiding something. Period. What could possibly not be appropriate for public consumption? This was a PUBLIC health crisis so if that’s the case, then the data should be PUBLIC. End of story. This does nothing in my mind, but stoke more distrust.

  5. I keep reading these articles week after week. I could make my commentary on each and every one…….but what good would it do. For those who want to find the Truth…..Will ….and the rest will probably be left in the Dark. I just find it hard to believe in anything the Gov. Agencies are telling us…….I’ve always been a Skeptic. But we need Balance too…….there are a whole lot of people claiming to know …..CURES…..some are just Scary to me. Being a Wholistic Practitioner for 35 years……I’ve seen / heard it all. My Prayers are with Everyone. Common Sense!!!

  6. Dr. Michael Yeadon has accumulated research which is apparently available now about lot numbers of vaccines from the different manufacturers. He says that it has been established that a small percentage of the lots are associated with the majority of serious adverse events and deaths. There is also evidence that the manufacturers agreed on when to release what so they could more easily monitor the damages. He believes there are different formulations to see what effects they have and samples from different lots have been analyzed which prove they are different from each other. According to Dr. Reiner Fuellmich of the Corona Investigative Committee in Germany, this would prove premeditation to injure or kill and would nail the case against the perpetrators of the crimes against humanity.

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