I call bullshit. 80,000 pages is nothing and people don't have to do it. That's what we now have AI for.

For fuck sakes, my $200 computer can scan 80,000 pages for target phrases, names, etc. in less than a couple minutes. Who are these fuckwads trying to fool?

There have been a lot of things that fit into this category.

It started with Proximal Origin's "irrefutable" proof of natural origin (via pangolin) and the Lancet Statement saying China was "open and transparent". We know it's silly, so what does it mean when the world's leading experts are insisting silly things are true?

This is where deduction trumps science. If they're trying to sit on the data for 55 years, we can safely assume there's a reason for that.