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

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

The ‘Dead Vagina Syndrome’ (DVS) and its herbal cure

Who could resist reading an article entitled “Is Dead Vagina Syndrome Real? Plus, 4 Ways To Boost Your Libido“? 

Well I couldn’t, particularly as it came from a site promisingly called ‘ALTERNATIVE DAILY’! 

And I did not regret it. Here are some excerpts: …

“Dead vagina syndrome” or DVS is used to describe a woman’s over-sensitized […] Read the rest here: The ‘Dead Vagina Syndrome’ (DVS) and its herbal cure

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...

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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?

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

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

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...

Read on: The Goop Has Hit The Fan – Pencils and Popcans

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

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...

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

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

Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop tries to hit back at doctor critic | The Independent

Gwyneth Paltrow’s wellness brand Goop has fired back against their vociferous critics in a post defending their products such as the infamous vaginal jade egg.

On Thursday, Goop took aim at gynaecologist Dr Jen Gunter in the first of a new series of posts in which the company plans to discredit their critics...

Read on: Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop tries to hit back at doctor critic | The Independent

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