Yes, I think so, but the article is somewhat unclear. It mentions "NuSI would have no control over the pilot study’s design, operation, or reporting. He could b

Yes, I think so, but the article is somewhat unclear. It mentions "NuSI would have no control over the pilot study’s design, operation, or reporting. He could build the study he wanted." But a couple of sentences later mentions that "The EBC researchers met with NuSI quarterly to finalize the study’s design and clinical procedures." Assuming I'm reading between the lines correctly, I'm interpreting the sloppy writing there to mean that the study was to be done independently by EBC and the type/style of study was something EBC got to design, but the that specifics of the design were signed off by both EBC and NUSI. If that interpretation is correct, it makes NuSI then critiquing it a bit shady given they had already signed off on the design as being good before the study started and now when it didn't provide the results they wanted they suddenly had problems with the design. To their credit, it doesn't look like they interfered with the reporting of result though.