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The criticism is unrelated to the goals or methods of the study, however. Our stated purpose was to investigate \u201c<jats:italic>how the term ExDS has evolved in the literature and been endowed with a uniquely lethal quality<\/jats:italic>,\u201d and whether there is \u201c<jats:italic>evidence for ExDS as a unique cause of a death that would have occurred regardless of restraint, or a label used when a restrained and agitated person dies, and which erroneously directs attention away from the role of restraint in explaining the death<\/jats:italic>.\u201d We cannot fathom how de Boer et al. missed this clearly stated description of the study rationale, or why they would endorse a series of fallacious and meaningless claims that gave the appearance that they failed to grasp the basic design of the study. 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