:::::::I agree. It can only be used to support a secondary source. My only reason to link to it here was to determine how much credibility we can give to the message above allegedly from the subject. I also searched the Harper's Magazine archives and failed to find any mention of the spa; I did find some in the NYTimes: , , and . 
 :::::::Look: I'm not out to do a hit piece on this subject; what I'm interested in is doing a balanced, well-sourced, neutral treatment. I've been to such spas myself, and personally I think the SAD is lethal and the cause of most degenerative diseases. But in my experience trying to avoid or whitewash unpleasant incidents just makes things more difficult, in both RL and on WP. It's the cause of 90 percent of edit wars, IMO. So if we just write to WP policy as it is clearly laid out and stop trying to read the gray, the article will be fine and we'll all be better editors in the end.