Well, I can see some reasonable points on both sides. I think it's very reasonable to doubt GHK ever sold mahakea that averaged 19% KL. It also seems very odd to me that GHK wouldn't let a reputed kava vendor see his farm for fear of kava theft. Do you really think Matt would want to steal your kava? I could think of other reasons to be hesitant, but that seems like a strange reason IMO. You could have also used it as an opportunity to shut up every non-believer once and for all and likely end the allegations, but not letting Matt see your farm is understandably going to add fuel to the conspiracy fire.
I can also see why GHK would be so frustrated by the baseless fraud allegations, and cherry picking one possibly inaccurate claim is very unfair IMO.
This kind of reminds me of Obama's birth certificate. People made some ridiculous allegations that Obama wasn't born in the US. Did Obama come right out and show his birth certificate? No, because the claims were from people ridiculously grasping at straws. But eventually enough people jumped on the wagon that he gave in and showed his birth certificate. However, that still wasn't enough for some people.
I highly doubt GHK has been fraudulently claiming to be a large-scale kava grower. Is it possible? I guess, but there's still no evidence that he doesn't have a kava farm. And I do think Chris's recent actions have given the non-believers a little more ammo.
As for the Mahakea thing, it seems very insignificant IMO. It sounds to me like Chris might have embellished, but his current listings are all accurate afaik and it really seems like nit-picking a vendor for a minor transgression.
At any rate, I love Chris's kava because I love Chris's kava. Even if we lived in a universe where the conspiracy was true, I would still love Chris's kava.
Also want to add that it sounds like Chris was referring to general info he's seen about each strain rather than specific stats about the kava he was selling. Misleading, but certainly not egregious if that's the case