Hearing Without Listening

Actually, they didn’t even pretend to listen.

This is how Pfizer’s vaccine was just approved under Emergency Use Authorization:

“As it unfolded online, the virtual meeting on December 10 seemed to degenerate into a race to the finish—and an outcome that seemed all but preordained.

The FDA’s handpicked acting committee chairman, University of Michigan professor of epidemiology Dr. Arnold Monto, 87, punctuated the dialogue with efforts to hurry it along.

‘Okay, we have many, many questions and we’re going to have to limit them.’

‘We need to keep it brief.’

‘No follow up. We’re pressed for time. I got 10 people who want to ask questions.’

‘I’m going to excuse Dr. Fink’—Doran Fink of the FDA—‘from having to answer that part of the question.’

‘Okay, we’re going to not worry about adaptive and innate immune responses right now. We’ll take that offline.’

‘I think we want to stay away from more discussions about immune response and other things that could be taken offline.’ “

Hearing Without Listening