Jean-François Cliche

The retraction was more than justified and long overdue. That paper had absurd fatal flaws in design and analysis that would result in a failing grade if even submitted as a college research project. The errors and flaws are so great I won’t even take the time to explain them but the article linked here does a good job of listing and providing a basic explanation of many of the major ones. The fact The Wellness Company continues to use its invalid conclusions in its marketing even after these fatal flaws were revealed, they could not address them, and the paper was retracted, speaks to their practices and priorities. By promoting an unproven (and likely ineffective) treatment based on unsubstantiated claims, they may persuade people to forego proven effective treatments that might actually help them, and lead to great harm.