Physician-led ID/HIV causation review
Momus Review
ID/HIV causation reliability review for attorneys.
A board-certified infectious-disease physician reviews an expert's causation opinion and provides counsel with a clear, sourced account of where the reasoning holds and where it does not. The work is medical and scientific causation analysis; counsel supplies and applies the governing legal standard.
What it is
Expert causation opinions move from evidence to conclusion. This review examines that inference chain — particularly the step from population-level data to a claim about one individual — and identifies where it is well supported and where it is not.
Services
What the review examines, how counsel engages a non-testifying consulting reviewer, and what counsel receives.
Method
A documented, reproducible review methodology, grounded in the physician's judgment rather than a mechanical verdict.
Sample
A synthetic specimen showing the review format, with legal standards left to counsel.
Expertise
HIV and infectious-disease expertise
Reviews are performed by a board-certified infectious-disease physician with deep experience in HIV prevention, treatment, transmission reasoning, PrEP / PEP, viral suppression, U=U, source-attribution limits, and infectious-disease causation analysis.
Momus Review focuses on whether medical and epidemiologic evidence actually supports the individual causation opinion offered in a matter.
- per-act, per-exposure, and route-specific transmission probabilities
- PrEP, PEP, adherence, timing, and counterfactual prevention claims
- viral suppression and U=U reasoning
- phylogenetic, viral-sequence, and resistance-pattern source-attribution claims
- non-transmission arguments and the limits of what non-infection can prove
- differential etiology and alternative-source reasoning
When it helps
- General-to-specific causation. An expert moves from a published statistic to a claim about this individual.
- Transmission probabilities. A per-act, per-exposure, or route-specific figure is stated more strongly than the science supports.
- Source attribution. A specific source is named as the cause of a specific infection beyond what the evidence — including phylogenetic data — can establish.
- Prevention and suppression facts. PrEP, PEP, or undetectable-equals-untransmittable reasoning appears to be misapplied.
Retain a reviewer for a matter
Engagements begin with a conflicts check and a brief scoping conversation.