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

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?

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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...

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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...

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This Doctor Says Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop Promotes Bullshit. Goop Just Clapped Back.

Medical experts have long slammed Goop, Gwyneth Paltrow’s e-commerce wellness empire, for endorsing nonscientific and potentially dangerous products — from sex dust to silver nanoparticles — and pseudoscience personalities.

But on Thursday, Goop for the first time singled out one of its most vocal critics, obstetrician-gynecologist Jen Gunter, who routinely takes the site to task on her Twitter and blog. In particular, it defended the vaginal jade eggs that Gunter lambasted earlier this year...

Read on: This Doctor Says Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop Promotes Bullshit. Goop Just Clapped Back.

goop fights back! | Pharyngula

I guess it was predictable: the quackery on display at Gwyneth Paltrow’s ridiculous goop site has been receiving a lot of well-deserved mockery, and you knew that they weren’t going to simply accept this threat to their credibility and profit by changing their approach and offering legitimate, evidence-based health claims — they’re doubling-down with an extra helping of indignation. So they’ve fished up some people with degrees (please, don’t dignify them by calling them doctors) to defend bullshit. So, for instance, they have a lengthy defense of homeopathy that is straight-up flagrant nonsense...

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Gwyneth Paltrow's 'Goop' Attacks Doctor Who Doubted Vagina Jade Eggs | Inverse

Gwyneth Paltrow is gaslighting America.

A post on Paltrow’s lifestyle website and expensive nonsense shop Goop published Thursday argues that Jennifer Gunter — an OB/GYN and evidence-based medicine advocate who has criticized the company’s potentially dangerous recommendations — disrespected women when she told them not to put Goop’s $55 crystals in their vaginas. Below’s the advertorial for “beauty guru/healer/inspiration/friend” Shiva Rose’s jade eggs...

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Gwyneth and her medi-shills strike back | The Skeptical OB

Quacktress Gwyneth Paltrow has taken PT Barnum’s advice to heart.

Barnum famously said that you can’t go broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public. Paltrow is channeling Barnum with her website goop and is laughing all the way to the bank.

When quacktresses like Paltrow trade on their celebrity to sell useless, nonsensical and potentially dangerous products, they aren’t empowering women; they’re taking advantage of them.
But not everyone is laughing with Paltrow. Some are laughing at her. Indeed OB-GYN Jen Gunter has made a specialty of skewering Paltrow and she never lacks for material. Highlights include:

• Gwyneth Paltrow says steam your vagina, an OB/GYN says don’t
• Dear Gwyneth Paltrow, I’m a GYN and your vaginal jade eggs are a bad idea
• Gwyneth Paltrow doesn’t have adrenal fatigue because it doesn’t exist

The bad publicity is apparently having an effect...

Read on: Gwyneth and her medi-shills strike back | The Skeptical OB