I was one of the expert advisers on the evidence review, and the advice we provided was rejected by the task force on multiple occasions. Anyone who was able to be an adviser to the working group had to sign a non-disclosure. They could not disclose what their input would be. It was something that I did not do for that reason.
I can tell you that, on numerous occasions on the evidence review panel, we could see the lack of understanding of the screening and of the understanding of the studies we were talking about, so it was really not well regarded and not well taken into consideration.