Consider it spending to prevent vaccine hesitancy. It would probably be more effective then a advertising campaign with the same money (provided the documents indicate everything is on the up and up) as it stands this looks bad and will push people further away.
What evidence is there that more lives would be saved by diverting FDA employees from other tasks (like evaluating the safety of drugs, vaccines, medical devices, food, etc) to redacting trade secrets from documents that on the order of 10^0 people will read? How does DDOSing the FOIA unit of the FDA undermine the wholely separate review process that conclusively found both mRNA vaccines to be completely safe and extremely effective at preventing serious harm? How could that be more persuasive than the fact that (per the NYTimes COVID tracker) unvaccinated people make up 6/7ths of new daily cases and 12/13ths of new daily deaths?
The people hesitating to get the vaccine aren't doing it for scientific reasons in the vast majority of cases and nothing will convince them short of losing their job or similar negative consequences.
That's a strawman considering the overwhelming majority of people taking vaccine aren't doing it for scientific reasons either. They're taking it because of social pressure, virtue signal, fear, etc. but certainly not knowledge about science since less than 1% of the population is PhD educated and know anything about how science is done in the first place.
I don’t think that’s true at all. I don’t worry about polio, smallpox, etc. because of vaccines. I got vaccinated as soon as possible because vaccines have been proven to work. Absolutely nobody pressured me and I certainly don’t care what other people think.
So only PhD's know how to science. Guess my master's in EE doesn't mean jack then. Why am I even trying to read academic papers or science journals related to my job? I mean I don't even have a PhD...