What you shouldn’t put in your vagina: 2017’s greatest hits | Dr. Jen Gunter

It seemed as if the medical Internets of 2017 was at the mercy of a random vagina-woo generator. No sooner had I written an impassioned plea about why substance X shouldn’t go into the vagina I was getting tweets and Facebook messages about object Y.

I blame Gwyneth Paltrow. I mean why not, but if we are going to strive for accuracy...

What you shouldn’t put in your vagina: 2017’s greatest hits | Dr. Jen Gunter

Gwyneth Paltrow and GOOP are empowering women with psychic vampire repellent | Dr. Jen Gunter

Gwyneth Paltrow and the team at GOOP launched their artisanal, coffee table paywall today.  In the magazine we are treated to GP’s view on health, meaning nasty old doctors with board certifications should stop asking questions and women should just empower themselves with cleanses and detoxes. It doesn’t matter, you see, that science says these things are at best worthless and at worst harmful. I mean bowel perforation? Whatever. Gwyneth wants us to know that she has even studied up and is ready for smart aleck retorts about the liver and kidneys from doctors, biologists, and anyone who has completed 5th grade science because yes, yes my precious that was before we had flame retardants. You see flame retardants and PCBS and heavy metals can only be removed with expensive ingredients, special doctors, and a tube up the ass irrigating your colon. Why would you go to a board certified toxicologist if you suspected some kind of chemical poisoning when there is lemon juice, cayenne pepper, silicone tubing, foam rolling, and infrared saunas?

Read the full post, magnificently laced with Olympic-grade snark: Gwyneth Paltrow and GOOP are empowering women with psychic vampire repellent | Dr. Jen Gunter

Gwyneth Paltrow versus true autonomy

The term autonomy in relation to health care decision-making has recently been used by Gwyneth Paltrow as a defense for the wellness advice offered on her website goop. Paltrow says when doctors, scientists and reporters point out that her claims are biologically implausible, untested and potentially harmful that they are robbing women of their autonomy. That assertion couldn’t be more wrong...

Gwyneth Paltrow versus true autonomy

GOOP: when dragons hatch from jade eggs - Plague of Mice

We’ve discussed that simpering idiot Paltrow before. Not intensively, just mocking her moronic advice to hung over rich wastrels. Other people have ripped her and/or her very much for-profit “wellness” site GOOP‘s stupid and sometimes dangerous claims (vaginal steaming, anyone? Colonics?) apart, mocked her for selling vitamins at extortionate prices and so on. There’s a fair sample here, to be waded through at your leisure. If you know someone who seems to be confused or beguiled by the fuckwittery being punted by GOOP, it may provide some useful debunking tools.

Their latest wheeze is punting $60 jade eggs (about the size of golf balls) for exercising the vaginal muscles, promising it would give them orgasms of an intensity they have never before experienced. Because detox, apparently. The post hard-selling this rancid bollocks was titled: Better Sex: Jade Eggs for Your Yoni, “yoni” being simpering idiot for “vagina”.

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This Canadian doctor is going head-to-head with Gwyneth Paltrow over Goop | Toronto Star

Dr. Jen Gunter has been blogging about health and evidence-based medicine for seven years. But it’s her willingness to call out celebrity pseudo-science — in sometimes colourful language — that appears to be getting under Gwyneth Paltrow’s skin...

Read more: This Canadian doctor is going head-to-head with Gwyneth Paltrow over Goop | Toronto Star

Dr. Aviva Romm: Distancing herself from Goop after defending it – Respectful Insolence

It’s been over a month now since I started paying real attention to that wretched celebrity hive of scum and quackery founded by Gwyneth Paltrow known as Goop. It was a long time coming, and I feel a bit guilty for not really paying much attention to the “wellness,” “lifestyle,” and, of course, expensive quackery being sold by Paltrow and her minions through Goop. It began when Goop caught flack for selling pricey magic energy healing stickers. Well, it wasn’t so much for that as much as for the amusing intervention of NASA, which slapped down Goop’s claims that these stickers were made with a carbon compound that was developed for use in spacesuits used by astronauts.

Then it was a mere three weeks later that Goop decided to strike back against Dr. Jen Gunter...

Read more: Dr. Aviva Romm: Distancing herself from Goop after defending it – Respectful Insolence

Gwyneth Paltrow and Goop: Another triumph of celebrity pseudoscience and quackery – Science-Based Medicine

Earlier this month, the hostilities between Gwyneth Paltrow’s den of celebrity pseudoscience and quackery, her “lifestyle” website and store Goop, and skeptics erupted into open warfare, as Goop attacked Dr. Jen Gunter, an OB/GYN, blogger, and frequent critic of the pseudoscience published and sold by Goop. This leads to the question: Who are the physicians facilitating Paltrow and Goop? And does debunking nonsense as ridiculous as that peddled by Paltrow and her minions do any good?

Full post by Dr David Gorski at Gwyneth Paltrow and Goop: Another triumph of celebrity pseudoscience and quackery – Science-Based Medicine

SECOND OPINION | It's war! Debunkers take on Gwyneth Paltrow's GOOP and celebrity pseudoscience - Health - CBC News

Goop is actor Gwyneth Paltrow's online lifestyle company, a "homespun weekly newsletter" that has grown into a lucrative alternative health enterprise, spawning an equally passionate anti-Goop movement. And now, the long-simmering Goop hostilities have broken out into a full scale war of words.

On one side there are the "debunkers," including Canadian gynecologist Jennifer Gunter, University of Alberta professor Timothy Caulfield and comedian Stephen Colbert...

Read on: SECOND OPINION | It's war! Debunkers take on Gwyneth Paltrow's GOOP and celebrity pseudoscience - Health - CBC News

How Dr. Jen Gunter got on Gwyneth Paltrow's bad side

Last week, a dispute erupted between Canadian-born Dr. Jen Gunter and actor Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle site Goop, throwing pseudo-science and the role it plays in women’s health into the spotlight. In one corner there is Paltrow, a self-styled celebrity wellness guru and founder of the website featuring e-commerce, fashion, cooking and travel tips, with a side of highly dubious health-related advice. In the other corner is Gunter, an OB/GYN who is board certified in both Canada and the United States. Gunter recently landed on Goop’s Most Wanted list after crying foul over a number of the site’s most objectionable assertions and recommendations. Missed the media frenzy? Here’s what you need to know about the Gunter-Goop feud...

Read on: How Dr. Jen Gunter got on Gwyneth Paltrow's bad side

Goop Tried To Defend Vagina Eggs And The Internet Had A Field Day | HuffPost

Hold on to your vagina eggs, people. Goop and its medical advisors tried to come for the site’s critics, and it isn’t going over well.

Before now, Gwyneth Paltrow and her lifestyle site simply pressed on in the face of massive criticism over its questionable health and science claims (ahem, “energy balancing” stickers). But this week, the site published a three-part post that attempted to rebut the blowback it receives for dubious recommendations and products, including a $66 jade egg women are told to insert in their vaginas, then “recharge” with the power of a full moon...

Read on: Goop Tried To Defend Vagina Eggs And The Internet Had A Field Day | HuffPost

Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop calls criticism from scientists “dangerous” - Salon.com

Gwyneth Paltrow — the actress most famous for her alternative lifestyle practices — has always brushed off the criticism she has faced for promoting unconventional remedies on her wellness blog, “Goop” (even after admitting she has no idea what she’s doing).

But now, Paltrow and the Goop team are fighting back their toughest critics and defending their more controversial treatments.

In a post titled, “Uncensored: A Word from Our Doctors,” the wellness site defends its contributing doctors and calls the criticism they receive “dangerous.”

“As goop has grown, so has the attention we receive,” begins the overtly passive-aggressive post. “We consistently find ourselves to be of interest to many — and for that, we are grateful...

Read on: Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop calls criticism from scientists “dangerous” - Salon.com

Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop Issues a Rare Response to a Critic | Vanity Fair

It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly why Jen Gunter was the one to face the unusual ire of Goop and the Goop-adjacent. It could be because, unlike Colbert or even Caulfield, Gunter, as an unknown target, was easier to lash out at...

Read on: Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop Issues a Rare Response to a Critic | Vanity Fair

Toxic Rock Syndrome – Roxanne Porozinski – Medium

As time goes on, Gwyneth Paltrow is recognized less and less for her acting prowess, and more and more for her rotten health advice. Her latest? Urging women to vaginally insert a jade egg, a stone the size of a ping-pong ball, and hold it there. All day. Every day. Yet another new spin on the Amish rock tumbler...

Read more: Toxic Rock Syndrome – Roxanne Porozinski – Medium

Paltrow’s Goop Doctors Keep Quacking Along – Ars Longa Vita Brevis – Medium

It goes without saying (but I’m saying it anyway) that Gwyneth Paltrow is not the person to go to for medical advice. She is not a medical professional. She doesn’t even play one on TV. She is simply a famous person who sells snake oil. But it’s hard to fault her for being a good capitalist. After all, it’s caveat emptor, right?

Read on: Paltrow’s Goop Doctors Keep Quacking Along – Ars Longa Vita Brevis – Medium

Sorry, Gwyneth Paltrow. Science will always beat goopy junk - The Globe and Mail

And who are we kidding? Goop isn’t a benevolent aggregator of health information. It is a for-profit company seeking to move product. In fact, Ms. Paltrow admitted on Jimmy Kimmel Live! that she doesn’t know “WTF” (throwing down her own f-bomb) they talk about on Goop. That hardly sounds like someone motivated by the provision of meaningful information for the enhancement of autonomy. (And damn if those $66 (U.S.) vagina rocks didn’t originally sell out. Ms. Paltrow’s noble crusade to enhance your autonomy is likely making her millions.)...

Read more: Sorry, Gwyneth Paltrow. Science will always beat goopy junk - The Globe and Mail

Paltrow’s Goop hits back at Canadian doctor critic, defends vaginal jade eggs | Lifestyle from CTV News

In one post earlier this spring, Dr. Gunter pointed out several health concerns with the eggs. She was particularly concerned that jade is porous and could harbour bacteria that could put users at risk for all sorts of infections, including potentially fatal toxic shock syndrome.

She said not only is there no science to back up the use of the eggs, “selling women biologically implausible devices and unstudied practices under the guise of reclaiming sensuality is harmful.”
In its post Thursday, the Goop editors call the doctor’s concerns “strangely confident.”

Read on: Paltrow’s Goop hits back at Canadian doctor critic, defends vaginal jade eggs | Lifestyle from CTV News

Goop expert Dr Steven Gundry mansplains to critic Dr Jen Gunter in open letter

Earlier Maria covered the goop open letter that challenged Dr Jen Gunter and whether or not it was good business strategy. I name-checked Dr. Gunter in my write-up of the In Goop Health event held last month, as she has been one of the most vociferous and articulate critics of goopology. The goop/Gunter feud kicked off when Gwyneth Paltrow said in an interview that “if you want to f*ck with me, bring your A game”. Dr. Gunter responded with “we’re not f*cking with you, we’re correcting you”. And now we have rebuttals written by two goop experts, Dr. Steven Gundry—the one who said “don’t eat” at In Goop Health—and Dr. Aviva Romm, author of The Adrenal Thyroid Revolution.

Goop expert Dr Steven Gundry mansplains to critic Dr Jen Gunter in open letter

Gwyneth Paltrow and goop take on critic Dr Jen Gunter in open letter | Lainey

This week, goop decided to start a fight. And the fight isn’t with spray can cheese or on sugar, but Gwyneth Paltrow and co. want to take on Dr. Jen Gunter, a vocal critic of goop’s medical recommendations.

As Lainey said, it’s a RUMBLE!

First, if you want to read Dr. Gunter’s goop analysis, expressing her skepticism and incredulousness at goop’s recommendations, click here. There are a lot of interesting posts that dispute Gwyneth’s claims about everything from jade eggs to toxic tampons to the Tracy Anderson diet plan to the medical validity of adrenal fatigue.

But who is Dr. Gunter to give medical advice? Well her full title is Jennifer Gunter MD, FRCS(C), FACOG, DABPM. She’s an OB/GYN certified in both Canada and the US. You can check her credentials here...

Read more: Gwyneth Paltrow and goop take on critic Dr Jen Gunter in open letter

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Yes, another gossip site showing more journalistic integrity than the GOOP editorial team. At least this time it's written by a woman.

GOOP’s misogynistic, mansplaining hit job | Dr. Jen Gunter

GOOP and Gwyneth Paltrow have a case of GOOPitis, which according to Dr. Steve Gundry is due to my potty mouthed facts. Or tomato skins. Or something. I find it all very disjointed, inadequately researched, bloated, and mainsplainy.

I first saw this GOOP letter thing on the train back from a wonderful day in Manchester visiting with family (I’m over in the U.K. on holiday) when my phone almost blew up with Twitter notifications, partly because GOOP dedicated their first ever fighting words to little old me (apparently I have some gall suggesting women should not listen to second hand health advice from a ghost) and partly because even High Priestess Paltrow had descended from her bespoke, wooden vagina steaming throne to tweet among the mortals....

GOOP’s misogynistic, mansplaining hit job | Dr. Jen Gunter

Gwyneth Paltrow’s quack empire goop strikes back against Dr. Jen Gunter – Respectful Insolence

You know how you know when you’ve been effective deconstructing quackery or antivaccine pseudoscience? It’s when quacks and pseudoscientists strike back. It’s when they attack you. As much as Mike Adams’ near daily tirades against me last year caused problems and poisoned my Google reputation (which was, obviously, the goal), I could reassure myself with the knowledge that his attacks meant that I had gotten to him. When Steve Novella was sued by a quack, as much as I didn’t want to be sued by anyone, I knew that the fact that someone would sue him was testament to his effectiveness. Basically, counterattacks, character assassination, and, occasionally, legal threats are the price skeptics pay when they are effective...

Read more: Gwyneth Paltrow’s quack empire goop strikes back against Dr. Jen Gunter – Respectful Insolence