It's an interesting saga. I haven't researched it much so here's my gut take from reading the story and remembering earlier discussions... (Sadly) I think supp

It's an interesting saga. I haven't researched it much so here's my gut take from reading the story and remembering earlier discussions... (Sadly) I think supplements and questionable weight loss products are a real market and will be bought in the future even without any scientific backing. Which makes me weary of Ackman's bet. It seems like Herbalife has actually changed stuff quite a bit and could very well just be selling to people if they changed distribution to direct sales. They are selling snakeoil (imo) but they still seem to sell to real consumers at the end of the line and don't stock stuff in warehouses. Since this is the crux of the argument from my point of view I wonder why he didn't conduct any large sample survey before mounting the attack. It seems like a good step 0 to gather data on one of your major arguments but in fact... """ “Surveys are notoriously unreliable,” he responds. There’s no substitute for seeing the distributors’ actual retail records, he insists. """ That doesn't sound convincing at all.