Source: Outspoken with Dr Naomi Wolf (Substack).
In August of 2021 a group called the Public health and Medical Professionals for Transparency in America submitted a FOIA request to the FDA seeking the release of documents related to FDA’s Conditional Use Authorization for Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines. The FDA ignored the request, so the group sued. Last January, a U.S. district court ordered the release of the requested documents.
More than 400,000 documents are to be made public at the rate of 55,000 per month. Naomi Wolf has assembled a group of 3,000 medical professionals to review the material as it becomes available. The instant article presents her reaction to reports her volunteer reviewers have prepared.
Wolf claims to be announcing a genocide, but I think the claim is hyperbole. On the other hand, the work in citizen journalism her company is doing is a public service that may be of some interest:
https://campaigns.dailyclout.io/campaign/brand/cc3b3e5a-6536-4738-8ed6-5ee368c67240
Tidewater News and Opinion Forum 
The price of foolishness. . .
https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2022/04/vaccines-could-have-prevented-nearly-a-quarter-million-covid-19-deaths-in-us-study-finds/
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Impertinent.
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Impertinent????
No, highly relevant.
This “authority” is one of those with barrels of blood on her hands. She is so bad that she was banished from Twitter for spreading bullshit “information” considered extremely dangerous.
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Banning her from Twitter only magnifies her credibility with those ready to accept alternate views,
The CDC and FDA were initially wrong on a lot in this pandemic, but dissent was suppressed, Then when they had to change course, it made those who were suppressed look like they were right all along.
The CDC and FDA have barrels of blood on their hands too, and it continues to accumulate. Novavax and fluvoxamine are still not authorized for treating COVID in spite of their success overseas.
I am a big believer in the vaccines, but many of us are alive in spite of and not because of, the official line.
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I know you hate our government. I got that. But my view is that people who followed the social media sites for pandemic information are responsible for their own problems. In my opinion, the conspiracy mongers on the right, FOX and other scurrilous sources created this monster. They are the ones with blood on their hands.
You can’t have it both ways. If people are supposed to be responsible, informed citizens then who is going to lead them back to reality if they go astray.
Aren’t Libertarians big proponents of personal responsibility and suffering the consequences if they are not? No ifs, ands or buts.
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“who is going to lead them back to reality if they go astray.”
Certainly not the government, nor big tech, nor the WHO.
They have to hear all opinion, and, in consultation with their own doctor, make their choices .
But when government decides what information they can have and what will be hidden,, and their doctors are forbidden to offer unapproved advice, they are robbed of that chance.
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“But when government decides what information. . .”
There is an undefined word in that statement… “information.”
Is some bullshit that some jackass pulled out of their derriere “information?”
Are these statements “information?”
“Laetrile cures cancer.”
“Vaccination implants microchips.”
“Ingesting bleach is a way to cure Covid.”
By your logic, quacks who sell laetrile to desperate cancer victims should not be obstructed by those pesky regulators. Never mind that it is neither safe nor effective. Let the “market” sort it out.
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If foolish ideas are put forth, they should be easily disproven in the marketplace of ideas,
There is adequate evidence that Laetrile is not useful against cancer. But if you suppress the assertion instead of defeating it, that suppression will be seen as evidence that “Big Pharma” or some other entity with the power to suppress speech has something to hide.
Almost every invalid conspiracy theory includes claims of suppression, as that is an effective “proof” that there is something to hide.
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“If foolish ideas are put forth, they should be easily disproven in the marketplace of ideas,”
WRT to medical decisions, how many people have to die or be seriously injured before the market fixes the problem?
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Considerably fewer than die every year due to the FDA delaying the availability of lifesaving drugs and vaccines.
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Not really an answer to the question posed. Just another anti-FDA word salad.
Let me try again. How many people have to die or be seriously injured before the market fixes the problem?
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Far fewer than will die waiting on the FDA
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Another dodge and shot at the FDA. If that is all you have to say, you should stop. It is repetitive and not helpful. Nor does it answer the question.
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“If foolish ideas are put forth, they should be easily disproven in the marketplace of ideas”
Yeah, okay. Then what.
If it were legal there would be a thriving industry selling laetrile to desperate people. You seem to indulge in some sort of magical thinking when you think the “marketplace of ideas” will stop such abuse. Magical thinking will not stop them.
We are circling around the most pernicious aspect of modern “conservative” thinking. It is the idea that all “information” is equally valid. That “truth” is what people believe. Or, that if the evidence does not support a claim, there are plenty of “alternative facts” that will.
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Who then decides what information is valid, if you take that choice away from the people themselves?
The government? When has that ever worked out well?
A handful of nerds in California?
I would rather people place their confidence in health decisions in their personal physician to guide their choices.
Certainly, some quacks would sell Laetrile, but their lack of success would quickly become apparent, especially to other doctors following their journals. Some doctors might place profit above healing, but I would much rather take my chances with a doctor I can look in the eye than on a Bureaucrat answerable to no one.
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“Who then decides what information is valid”
People who know what they are talking about by having gone through a long period of education, testing and certification in the specialist disciplines needed to evaluate technical information. People who are held accountable when they make bad decisions. People like the public servants who staff government health agencies like FDA and CDC.
You say that “some” doctors (and who gets to say that they ARE doctors – some “bureaucrat?”) will put profit over healing. How many is some? How many people would they have to fleece, injure or kill before you would bring back the oversight that we have now? In the real world, magic is not a thing.
You seem to think that – just like you – everyone has a personal physician whom they know and trust. I would hazard the opinion that your idealized concept is the exception, rather than the rule.
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When have bureaucrats ever been held accountable?
If they were, most of the FDA and CDC decision makers would be unemployed, if not in prison.
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“If they were, most of the FDA and CDC decision makers would be unemployed, if not in prison.”
Prison?
Because they do not always agree with your doctrinaire and constipated thinking? Of course, you are a simpleton who thinks the “marketplace of ideas” can protect people from malfeasance and fraud when there are billions to be made from snake oil. A “marketplace” where you think disinformation has value comparable to the truth.
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Because they allowed hundreds of thousands of Americans to die waiting on life saving medicines while they dithered.
And they continue to do so.
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“Because they allowed hundreds of thousands of Americans to die waiting on life saving medicines while they dithered.”
I will not call a “fact” that you pull from your ass a LIE. I will call it what it is – a “fact” you pulled from your ass.
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OK, here are two life savers the FDA is delaying right now, in addition to the delays getting the vaccines and therapeutics to market.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-wont-the-fda-let-doctors-prescribe-fluvoxamine-for-covid-drug-approval-ivermectin-11653923709?st=f3n0tzga1tc1rbo&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
And Novavax has demonstrated a greater effectiveness against the Omicron variant’s than the mRNA vaccines
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fda-slow-walking-novavax-eua-expert-140156618.html
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“Banning her from Twitter”…
A PRIVATE business making a BUSINESS decision. You know, the market place?
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Didn’t say it wasn’t legal, I said it was counterproductive.
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I didn’t indicate it was illegal. I said it was a business decision.
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I don’t see anything in either of these two opinion pieces about hundreds of thousands of deaths. You remember, that “fact” you pulled out of your ass.
And, as always, nowhere in your cherry-picked hindsight calculus do we find ANY benefit from what the FDA does even though we know to a certainty that the market would be flooded with medicines and treatments that are neither safe nor effective without the work they do.
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“we know to a certainty that the market would be flooded with medicines and treatments that are neither safe nor effective without the work they do.”
Now THAT is pulling a fact from your ass.
You forget that absent FDA approval, strict liability applies, and the pharmacies’ product liability insurers will keep dangerous drugs off the market, in their own best interests. Safety is protected better by product liability and efficacy is better evaluated by physicians through their journals.
As for the two articles.
Novavax is at least twice as effective against Omicron variants as the approved vaccines. The data was presented to the FDA last December. The FDA hasn’t even scheduled a hearing. Keep in mind that the mRNA vaccines were given approval for young people within a month of data submission. How many have died, or been bankrupted, since January who could have been kept out of the hospital had Novavax been available in January?
Fluvoxamine is 80% effective in keeping infected people out of the hospital and is effective longer into the disease than Paxlovid, and we’ve known it was effective at least a year.
I think my estimate of lives lost is generous.
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“Now THAT is pulling a fact from your ass.”
Uh, actually the reason that we have government regulations of food and drugs is because without those regulations the markets were full of products that were neither safe nor effective.
Relying on pharmacies’s liability insurance to substitute for FDA approval is nonsense. Who says that the kind of products the FDA restricts are going to flow through pharmacies? And American industry has demonstrated repeatedly that “acceptable losses” from lawsuits and insurance settlements are cheaper than providing a safe and effective product in the first place.
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Anyone who buys medicines without consulting their doctor out of some guy’s trunk in a back alley is taunting Darwin.
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“Anyone who buys medicines without consulting their doctor out of some guy’s trunk in a back alley is taunting Darwin.”
No argument there but I would remind you that 70+ million people believed that Donald Trump is an honest and successful businessman whose magical promises are just what this country needs. A close analogy to snake oil. Not everyone is an informed consumer of medical care and products as you seem to be.
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And you think Biden is an improvement?
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“And you think Biden is an improvement?”
Uh, that would be in every possible way. You see, my mind is not filled with the dishgonest garbage about President Biden which you regurgitate just about every day.
Do you really not comprehend that TFG is a con man, an incompetent, and a criminal with zero moral fiber of any kind? Do you not see that he exploits and exacerbates every division, hatred, and resentment in our country. Do you not get that he has no plan of any kind for making this country better?
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Trump 2.1% inflation $2.20 gas, Record stock value prior to COVID, mean tweets
Biden, Flaming dumpster fire. incoherent excuses.
All in all, bring on Trump
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“All in all, bring on Trump”
Trump took the Obama economy and trashed it. Period. There is NOTHING positive that he did to change anything for the better. All his magical promises about eliminating the national debt, better healthcare for everyone at lower cost, bringing jobs back from Chy-Na, etc. came to nothing. His only actual “accomplishment” was the massive and unwise tax giveaway to himself and his cronies.
If you are really foolish enough to believe the right-wing trash-talk about Biden and the glories of Trump’s reign, then there is no helping you.
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There is much bad to be said about Trump, but he never set out to bankrupt an entire industry with no concern for those who live by that work.
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He set out to bankrupt the country for his own benefit with no concern for anyone but himself.
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“…he never set out to bankrupt an entire industry with no concern for those who live by that work.”
I suppose you are referring to fossil fuels?
If so, you are full of shit. Again.
We are going to transition away from fossil fuels. That is inevitable. And past time we took the issue seriously. If you are really worried about the people who cannot find work in this economic boom time, then I suggest that you quit bad-mouthing every piece of the economic safety net that – according to you – they are going to need.
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Spin, spin, spin.
Whatever failings real or imagined by government agencies, they were not self-aggrandizing snake oil salesmen, pathologically dishonest and crackpots.
You are alive because over generations the government has funded basic research with no immediate commercial gains in sight.
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RE: “This ‘authority’ is one of those with barrels of blood on her hands.”
That’s ridiculous and a sign of derangement on your part.
Wolf may be overselling her claims, but she is providing access to information the public has a right to see.
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I hate to break it to you, Mr. Roberts, but I am not deranged. That would be someone who scours the internet to find and spread this kind of garbage to justify and rationalize his own deranged decisions. You want to believe and spread crackpot ideas but, golly, you don’t want to be thought of as a crackpot. So, you look for this kind of “expert” to back you up. The beginning of wisdom is to know thyself. Give it a try before accusing others of being deranged.
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You think journalistic reporting on the 400,000 documents the FOIA request will produce is “crackpot”?
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“You think journalistic reporting on the 400,000 documents the FOIA request will produce is “crackpot”?”
I think that 400,000 documents from any source put into hands like these charlatans will produce nothing of any value. I think they will be cherry-picked and taken out of context, fed to eager recipients like you, and we will end up with more evidence for the profound truth in Brandolini’s Law.
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Isn’t she the “Demon Sperm” doc?
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