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NHS England chief criticises Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop products and Netflix series

Discussion in 'Other health news and research' started by April, Jan 31, 2020.

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    April Established Member (Voting Rights)

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    NHS England CEO Simon Stevens has accused, quite rightly, Gwyneth Paltrow's 'dubious wellness products and dodgy procedures' of being potentially damaging to health, as well as her Netflix series spreading misinformation and pseudoscience. Maybe he should take a look at his own organisation - plenty of quacks and charlatans operating there!
     
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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51312441

    BBC news item on this:

     
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    I wonder what he thinks about the lightning process...
     
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  4. April

    April Established Member (Voting Rights)

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    Not to mention MUS.....
     
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    I mean, sure, but right back at ya. Clean up your own quacks if you're gonna call out competing quacks. Pseudoscience legitimized is still pseudoscience. How about no pseudoscience instead?

    Just find a STOP mat, jump on it and don't let it affect you. That's it goes, right?
     
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    Gwynth needs to gets published in the BMJ then it will all be ok.
     
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    :rofl:
     
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    You have to wonder at Netflix. They do some really horrid stuff on health related issues. Someone in charge of production must be very clueless there.

    At least though the IMDb page gives 'The Goop Lab' a 2.1 rating which is at least something.
    The comments are scathing of both Goop and Netflix.

    I hold out no particular hope that Netflix will learn from this debacle.
     
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    Diluted-biscuit Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    the controversy probably just increased viewing numbers. Season 2 is likely......
     
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  11. rvallee

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    Paywalled but important article: Gwyneth Paltrow’s ‘Goop Lab’ is horrible. The medical industry is partly to blame.

    Bit too much emphasis on the women side, which is correct but not the whole thing, rather than chronic health issues, but overall this is an important point. And there are few medical institutions with more to blame for this than the NHS, a bastion of psychosomatic pseudoscience currently trying to both fight pseudoscience while actively promoting its own brand.
     
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    They’re not clueless, they’re Hollywood. That’s a long way below clueless.
     
    Sisyphus, Feb 12, 2020
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