We all have misunderstood good old Gwyneth Paltrow. At heart, she is a true sceptic!

Even the NEW SCIENTIST seems alarmed about Gwyneth and her activities: Psychic readings, energy healing and vampire facials are just a few of the adventures had by actor and alternative health guru Gwyneth Paltrow and her team in her forthcoming Netflix series The Goop Lab. Goop, Paltrow’s natural health company, has already become a byword […]

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American Loon #2183: Aviva Romm

Aviva Romm is an integrative physician (she actually does, in fact, have a real medical degree), midwife, and herbalist, defender of Goop and its practices, and contributor to the astonishingly insane misinformation on the Goop website. Her association with Goop should give you a...

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Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop pays $145,000 in vaginal egg lawsuit - BBC News

The lifestyle website founded by actress Gwyneth Paltrow has agreed to pay $145,000 (£112,000) for making unscientific claims about vaginal eggs... Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop pays $145,000 in vaginal egg lawsuit - BBC News

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

Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop Under Investigation For False Health Claims | IFLScience

An advertising watchdog has filed a complaint against Gwyneth Paltrow's now infamous lifestyle company, Goop. The nonprofit Truth in Advertising (TINA) sent out a letter to two district attorneys connected to the California Food, Drug and Medical Task Force, criticizing the company for promoting over 50 unsubstantiated (and illegal) health claims... Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop Under Investigation For False Health Claims | IFLScience

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...

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This gynecologist is taking on Trump, Goop — and wacky health trends | STAT

... In her war with Goop, Gunter positions herself above the fray because she’s not selling anything. She doesn’t take money from drug companies. She writes, she said, because she’s alarmed by the growing rift between evidence-based medicine and alternative therapies....

Read all about it here: This gynecologist is taking on Trump, Goop — and wacky health trends

Mainstream medicine is partly to blame for the 'treatments' Goop promotes

It is easy to mock the ridiculous and potentially harmful health advice and product lines promoted by Gwyneth Paltrow and her team at Goop. Sleeping near healing crystals, lugging around jade eggs in the vagina, swilling moon juice, undergoing raw goat milk cleanses, dabbing on sex dust, and snapping photos of your aura are just some of the ridiculous treatments and remedies offered at high prices to those looking for health ideas from a movie star.

The mocking may be a bit understated. How does this company and other equally daffy outfits pull off these highly lucrative health scams?

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Goop touted her as one of 'our doctors.' Dr. Aviva Romm rejects that label | Statnews

The headline on Gwyneth Paltrow’s wellness site, Goop, looked straightforward enough: “Uncensored: A word from our doctors.”

It featured a defense of the alternative medical practices that Goop has promoted, such as tucking a jade egg in the vagina to enhance sexual pleasure. An attack on an OB-GYN who has publicly slammed Goop’s advice. And then, open letters from two doctors who have written for Goop in the past...

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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...

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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...

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Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop under fire after sharing phony information

Goop, actress Gwyneth Paltrow's lifestyle website, removed a claim about a brand it was promoting after NASA debunked it.

Gizmodo first reported on the Goop-NASA situation.

A blog post on Goop raved about Body Vibes, wearable stickers that "optimize brain and body function" by emitting a "bio-frequency that resonates with the body's natural energy field," according to Body Vibes' website...

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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...

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The Goop Has Hit The Fan – Pencils and Popcans

Gwyneth Paltrow is in hot water – and not the exfoliating and pore-cleansing kind. This time, the former A-list actress/turned health beauty and wellness guru and her website Goop are under attack for the alleged fake science behind many of her acclaimed beauty and medicinal regimens.

This isn’t the first time Paltrow has courted controversy and it most probably won’t be the last. From naming her first born after a nutritious snack to consciously uncoupling from her rockstar husband Chris Martin, Paltrow definitely has a knack for getting under some serious skin. And now this Goopy goddess has caught the eye of the medical community with some of her brand’s health and wellness tips offered up to her legion of loyal followers...

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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...

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I Went on a Quest for Legit Health Tips at Gwyneth’s Goop Summit | LifeHacker

Gwyneth Paltrow used to be best known as an actress, but in the last decade she’s built an even bigger reputation as a health guru. Her newsletter venture, Goop, peddles an enviable lifestyle—travel, fashion, anything that looks gorgeous in photographs—but with a central message of living a clean, healthy life.

When she decided to bring Goop to life with a “summit” in Los Angeles, the focus was the thing she’s best known for, and happens to get the most shit about: health. Goop embraces novelty, including alternative therapies that range from useless to harmful. I went to the Goop health summit to see whether there was any real health advice to be had, and if not, what takes its place...

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Defense of Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop offers case study on how to sell snake oil | Ars Technica

This week, Gwyneth Paltrow’s high-profile lifestyle and e-commerce site, Goop, gave birth to a beautiful gift to the Internet—and it wasn’t a moon-powered vagina egg that invigorates our mystical “life force.” No, it was a perfectly crafted reference guide for how to sell snake oil.

It’s really quite impressive.

In case you’re unfamiliar—or just need an empowering refresher—Goop is a site directed mostly toward affluent women that peddles pricy products and overuses the word “empower” while dabbling in many forms of pseudoscience and quackery...

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