An Innocent Redaction - Safe & Effective #16
With a heavy dose of sarcasm answering the question: "why should you trust the CDC?"
As longtime readers of this blog will know, I’m a big fan of the CDC. And by “big fan” I mean “let’s dissolve it immediately and start a tribunal to hold people accountable.”
Yet when I was in D.C. recently, people there still seem to trust the CDC and other entities like it. Sadly, they aren’t alone there: as of last year 37% of Americans inexplicably trust the CDC a “great deal.” Such trust is deep and thus hard to unwind.
Rather than attacking it straight on, it may be worth sharing small anecdotes that are nearly indefensible.
And it’s with that preamble that I encourage you all to share the CDC’s recent response to a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request around a study they have on the effects of myocarditis after Covid vaccination.
This news comes courtesy of Zach Stieber, whose tweet is below:
You can find the tweet here, and you can find the document itself here. And if you can’t tell, there’s this: the entire 149-page study is completely redacted.
Now please, ask yourself: “what possible reason could a study on the Covid vaccines and myocarditis be entirely redacted?”
Even those who trust the CDC would have trouble defending this (so please, share it with them)!
Of course, most of my readers probably know the game theory here. Had the paper had any positive news for people, this study would have been not just released but blasted out as another tool for the media to hit anti-vaxxers as anti-Science buffoons. That it doesn’t, and indeed needs to be redacted in entirety, tells us pretty darn clearly what the implications are.
More broadly, there is a huge problem with a federal agency doing this. We, the American people, fund the CDC. We pay for all of it, and they work for us.
That unelected bureaucrats can hide critical data from us so blatantly, while simultaneously still pimping out the latest jabs?
That’s treasonous. Pure and simple. And the only way forward as a nation, if we want to have functioning institutions, is to hold such agencies accountable. Disband them, jail the leaders responsible, and rebuild them from the ground up.