The task force had a call for experts to be consultants and advisers, but the condition of being one of those advisers had to be that you signed a form that removed any possibility of your disclosing what the process was and was involved with. These experts also were non-voting members. I decided that was a risk that I was not willing to take, but I was able to work with the evidence review team and to really see what the working group was insisting on by this evidence review.
I could see their interference, really, and their direction, which really hampered the evidence review team from doing the work that had been proposed, which was to look at the recent evidence, which was what was done in the United States. They only looked at studies from 2016 on. This protocol was not adopted by the working group, and I think that is one of the reasons we have these recommendations.