Leaked email: FDA “turned a blind eye” to Pfizer’s "knowing submission of fraudulent data," says former criminal investigator

Pfizer and FDA respond to leaked email

On Nov. 2, 2021, The BMJ broke the story of Brook Jackson, the regional director who blew the whistle on data integrity issues in Pfizer’s pivotal COVID-19 vaccine trial. Weeks later, documents were leaked supporting Jackson’s complaint about “falsified data.”

Among the leaked documents was an email, authored by a former federal agent in the FDA’s Office…