Of course you would but to be blunt you have no idea how science works and have a fixed attitude that "eggheads must be wrong", I am an engineer by trade but I work with Scientists all day and believe it or not there are always doubts about the numbers and methods this is what peer review is all about, it is hard enough to get 2 people to agree let alone a laboratory of 20 and a community of thousands.
- As far as their refusal to pass on data that is already in the public domain we have a similar policy when dealing with the competition, they can use google just like everyone else.
- As far as not releasing personal doubts about an aspect of work, I doubt that you will find any industry where information to the public or competition is not heavily managed.
- As far as the deletion of data goes, it is impossible to know what has been kept or disposed of without seeing the original data and nothing in these emails represents the original data just a scientists opinions on various data sets, however given the accreditation requirements Laboratories at this level require (Try passing an FDA audit and you will know what I mean) I would doubt that any of them would hold the certificates they have if they were deleting raw data.
I realise my discussions with you on this topic are wasted and you will simply ignore them through entrenched views but as someone that has to keep 6 years worth of raw data, control data available to inspection at any time there is next to no chance accredited Laboratories can get away with fraudulent science on a grand scale.