The Danger of Chromotherapy

Skeptical Inquirer magazine feature by Sebastien Point (French physicist/engineer, scientific rapporteur for blue light and vice president of the non-ionizing radiation section of the French radioprotection society), verified by direct fetch and PDF read of the archived magazine pages on 2026-08-13 (page footers read "Volume 41 Issue 4" and "July/August 2017"). Because the mechanical verify-quotes fetcher cannot parse this PDF's compressed text streams (confirmed: the raw PDF bytes do not contain the plain-text word "pseudomedicine"), no verbatim quotation from this source is used in the published bundle; substantive conclusions are paraphrased instead. The article states there is a lack of scientific evidence for chromotherapy's effectiveness; reports finding no medical research article defining its claimed therapeutic colors in the bibliographic database of Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine; states that colored-light therapists do not ground their claims in physics or scientific evidence; and concludes chromotherapy is a pseudomedicine with no real health benefit. The article addresses present-day chromotherapy (LED-based lamps currently on the market) generally, not the historical Spectro-Chrome specifically. Used as the qualifying modern independent-expert critique of the present-day marketed method for the active-enterprise present-day-critique requirement.