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Re:Pfizer-Biontech vaccine data stolen in cyber attack by rubidium on Thursday December 10, 2020 @07:08AM (#25372801)
Those numbers are somewhat financial fiction to garner sympathy for big pharma, lobby for reduced regulations, and for “AI” startups to pitch their products.
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Re:Pfizer-Biontech vaccine data stolen in cyber attack by mherrmann on Thursday December 10, 2020 @07:48AM (#25373121)
Can you substantiate this?
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Re:Pfizer-Biontech vaccine data stolen in cyber attack by tremon on Thursday December 10, 2020 @08:26AM (#25373425)
Substantiate? No, you'll have to wait for the next Panama Papers for that.

But the process is similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting : there's so many levels of suppliers/customers/expenses that may or may not belong to the same conglomerate, it's very easy to make the numbers of any individual organization reflect what you want it to reflect.

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Re:Pfizer-Biontech vaccine data stolen in cyber attack by deathgrips on Thursday December 10, 2020 @12:35PM (#25376131)
If you torture the data, it will speak.
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