Hello,
I created a new search form and there are exclusions, yet it pulls up the results from all the pages and posts. It almost appears that a default wordpress search is overriding my settings. Could that be true?

This page isn’t public yet. Can I send you the page URL privately?

You can search a term like common cold. I have the search form set to search only posts with the category that I setup (knowledge base), yet you can see it’s pulling up all pages for the results.