maxmartin said:peer review is based on semi-transparency, you can ask the author to provide more data figure to support his conclusion in the paper. Can SKY provide his superhuman real blood data to the panel of experts?
Isn't that the essencee of the biopassport ?
Everyone's bloodwork gets looked at first by a single expert, then if flagged by that single person, a few more all of whom have to agree that there is a case to answer.
No single scientist/blood expert can raise a case simply because most of us realise that an individual scientist can be wrong, and it is important to verify and cross check conclusions.
Going back to the expert commentary on Brads 2009 data. That more than anything is why I thing a single expert publishing a fairly scathing analysis on a fairly limited blood profile data set is just someone looking to make a name for themselves or a quick buck.
Note how Ashenden when he speaks to journalists phrases things very differently.
(As an aside I'm certainly exploring the idea of a trip to Manchester, there is a nice direct flight from Atlanta, have got family there to stay with and attending a presentation by Sky of training data etc would be very interesting to me professionally as well as with my cycling fan hat on.)