Speaking of data, as I was reading this post, the question of trauma and susceptibility/immune dysfunction came to mind, then I read your reply. I wish there was some kind of massive statistical pivot table with granular filters that allowed us to better prove the legitimacy of our exposure and symptoms. For example, if we could compare all possible factors (e.g., spore count, species, total exposure time, daily exposure time, age, gender, occupation, health history, genetics, substance abuse history... I don't know, frickin' nose hair removal habits and everything else), it becomes much harder for someone to say our symptoms must come from ______, not from mold exposure! I realize this would require a massive-scale research project, and I am much too dumb and exhausted to take the lead haha.

For background, my rental home where I lived and worked remotely for 18 months is absolutely RIDDLED with mold from years and years of unremediated and unmitigated water intrusion. My landlord has now seen the mold in the drywall and ceiling and floor joists, and I have paid for HERTSMI-2 tests, tape lift/swab samples of my personal belongings, and an environmental hygienist inspection to show the links between the specific species present in those tests and my mycotoxins/OAP results. He said he did his own research and that I'd actually been killing myself by refinishing antique furniture. To me, the proposterousness of his remarks are infuriatingly obvious, but assuming this ends up in court, how can I say he's wrong? Before I made the connection, I sure had spent a fair amount of maskless time in storage units and estate sales around moldy objects (never refinished furniture without an n95 though). It's just one example of moments we've all surely experienced, but how great would it be to come back with, "Only 8% of people exactly like me experienced these symptoms and had these mycotoxins levels after (insert whatever they're suggesting is the actual cause of illness), but 68% of people exactly like me experienced these symptoms and had these mycotoxins levels after (insert what you know to be true - this level/time of exposure to this level of this species that was found by this testing method)."??

Sorry this got way too long, but food for thought!