I'm Just Trying to Get Into the Heads of the People Who Don't Believe What We Just Said

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i'm very high on the open expression and full transparency. And ye, you need to throw bright light into dark recesses. That includes releasing pertinent data of this kind. What i read was thata conglomerate, or not a conglomerate, a large group of interested parties had filed freedom of information requests with the fta for some of these data. I hadn't heard that fizer itself had said no. But all i can tell you is that in the minds of tends of millions of of americans, that factoid detonates like a 20 maga dons bomb,. Yes? Imay, whatso you tell me if you know anything about that. Like i think, i really

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