Quote Originally Posted by Triskeliongirl
Think of it this way. You go to the doctor, and you take a test that says your TSH levels are above normal. You are feeling sluggish and perhaps other confirmatory tests are ordered. Based on the totality of the evidence, your doctor diagnoses you with a thyroid condition and prescribes thyroid hormone. Will you ever really know that you have a thyroid condition? Of course!
Neither here nor there (since I know you simply used thyroid as an example), but as someone mis-diagnosed as hyper-thyroid (based on testing only TSH) when in reality I was hypo (Hashimoto's) and had thyca, I can argue that there were additional tests my docs should've done (free T-3 and free T-4) that would have given them additional information to diagnose me correctly. I don't have a high level of confidence in labs or testing or docs. If my doc didn't have complete information, what's to say that the French labs have complete information in this case?

I'm not a scientist, but my understanding is that there is a question about the validity of the T/E ratio test, so much so that it's likely WADA will throw out the test in the next update.

Banned substance lists change all the time (once a year from WADA; national associations sometimes take longer to follow suit). And the testing and technology for detecting banned substances also changes. New tests (like the T/E test) are introduced and later found to be faulty. Landis and his lawyers are counting on this, I think.

I know science is as black & white as we can get, but there's still some gray around the edges if you ask me.