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I'm a journalist with ADHD. From both perspectives it's unethical & misleading for a neurotypical journalist to try get diagnosed privately, but tell NHS psychiatrist about investigation into false diagnoses & then use the NHS assessment as evidence private diagnoses are wrong 
Your NHS ADHD assessment result is worthless after you've warned the psychiatrist about your journalistic agenda and implied you don't believe you have ADHD. Plus if you don't apply the same approach to the private assessments, making comparisons is extremely misleading.
It shouldn't matter but I was diagnosed more than a decade ago by a psychiatrist I saw for struggles I did not then believe to be ADHD. I never advocated for a diagnosis but given how underdiagnosed it is especially in high function women, I understand why now people do seek one.
I do have concerns about assessment reliability, both the potential for it to fail to pick up real cases & for 'false' diagnoses. We already know psychiatric assessment & even definitions of disorders are subjective and often vague. That's true for both private & NHS services.
So what does this investigation achieve? The methodology biases the outcomes; the approach (neurotypical cosplays neurodivergent) is offensive; the message stigmatises those of us with ADHD, gives people reason to doubt us & increases our fears about being dismissed & disbelieved
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