@stevekirsch I was just listening to an interview with Nathaniel Mead, one of the lead authors on the study, on the children's health defense website. It seems very likely to me that springer probably fully intended to retract the study shortly after publication in order to discredit the authors of the study, and perhaps more importantly, in one fell swoop discredit all of the previously published supporting research used in the study. In other words, the entire process may have been a setup.