The Siege of Herbalife (2015)
Interesting article...lots of up-votes, but few weighing in... I&#x27;ll give it a go...<p>Money is at stake for one side..a stock has been publicly shorted...<p>Money, and a &quot;way of life&quot; created, for many, by an organizational structure (MLM), is at stake for Herbalife, to include it&#x27;s financial managers, distributors and customers...<p>I can only respond by sharing my own personal experiences with MLMs...<p>I&#x27;ve never been approached by anyone that I suspected was knowingly, or unknowingly, involved in an MLM-type business that was selling a product I couldn&#x27;t live without...and in many cases the &quot;peddlers&quot; had obviously been coached to tout benefits that I firmly believed didn&#x27;t exist, or weren&#x27;t possible...<p>This to include lotions, juices, air purifiers, supplements, etc...you name it...<p>In this specific case I can say the same...I try to go with the best available evidence whenever I can...<p>I&#x27;ve never seen any evidence that a normal healthy person derives significant benefit from supplements of any kind...vitamins, herbs, juice extracts, whatever...<p>I&#x27;m wary of &quot;snake oil&quot; to a fault...if you aren&#x27;t well seek medical advice...buying something from a salesman is possibly one of the worst things you can do if you&#x27;re concerned about your health...spend that money getting yourself checked out...<p>The question for me is not whether Herbalife offers any kind of a health benefit to consumers, or an economic benefit to those involved in it&#x27;s distribution network...<p>The question to be answered is whether or not a &quot;whistle-blower&quot; should ethically be allowed to profit, substantially, from blowing that whistle...