Without those pesky fact-checkers
That’s not good.
It drives me kind of nuts that Paltrow does this. It’s the same kind of abuse of “celebrity” and money and the power they bring that Trump indulges in. She has no medical training, but she sets herself up as a purveyor of “health”-bestowing consumer goods, based on…nothing. Flowery language, hype, psychobabble, bullshit, vague unpindownable claims. Fraud, in short.
Goop is all excited about goop press.
While we spend a lot of our reading time online, we’re book fans. And some content simply merits a book cover. At the end of 2015, we launched a book imprint because we wanted to share the perspectives of the incredible scientists, healers, and teachers we meet in our pursuit of individual and collective well-being.
What is “well-being”? It’s whatever Gwyneth Paltrow says it is, I suppose. Fasting! Let’s have some “intuitive” fasting! Nothing at all dangerous about that.
Whatever you do, DO NOT try the eggs at her candle-lit supper – and probably best to give the candles a wide berth while you’re at it.
It galls me that this nonsense has gotten so tied up with “feminist” thinking. Those “feminists” who insisted that female is a whole different way of thinking, sans science, that is about feelings and earth mother goodness, and….well, goop…has a lot to answer for. As a feminist, I reject this message.
It’s sad, too, how otherwise reliable sceptics and fact-checkers will rightly take down the woo nonsense of female-targeted sites like goop, but will blithely give a pass to gender woo spouted by dudes. Can’t imagine why that is.
Of course, and Rowling is the devil but Paltrow isn’t getting hung in effigy.
As people who value medical knowledge, and believe that it should, and does, serve everyone, how do we respond to concern that at least some of this knowledge was obtained by exploiting women and Black men? How do we reassure people in these demographics that they’re valued as people, and not just for what experimenting on them can do to improve medical care for men and white people, that we acknowledge and regret some of the ways medical knowledge was obtained in the past, and that we’re doing our best to make it true that a) these atrocities don’t happen again and b) medical knowledge is obtained and used equitably, and for and in the best interests of every person?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4801855-women-under-the-knife
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2019/p0905-racial-ethnic-disparities-pregnancy-deaths.html
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/nov/20/healthcare-gender-bias-women-pain
I worked on one movie with Paltrow. She was by far the most abusive actor toward the crew of anyone I have ever worked with, and often went out of her way to berate and insult people that she basically had nothing to do with. In my over 30 years in the film business, I have seen actors and others have bad days, but I have never, ever seen this sort of systematic abuse of people who were defenseless to protect themselves. So her current abhorrent behavior is not surprising to me.