Netflix is now complicit in Gwyneth Paltrow’s goop lab pseudo-science
Gwyneth Paltrow and the goop lab is everything wrong with Hollywood, and Netflix is now dangerously complicit in the pseudo-science.
It appears Gwyneth Paltrow has used her ability to pimp expensive products with fictitious healing properties to gullible people, along with her influence and financial power, to get a Netflix series. A Netflix series called the goop lab (yes, without capitalization) premieres soon, and it will undoubtedly be cancelled after one pretentious season, or sooner.
Netflix should be ashamed. Here’s why.
Paltrow is dangerous.
Where to start? According to the description, this show is supposed to be about “exploration of boundary-pushing wellness topics, including: psychedelics, cold therapy, female pleasure, anti-aging, energy healing and psychics.” Yeah, and Gwyneth also warned everyone about Harvey Weinstein, too.
Unfortunately, this show is going to be blindingly moronic, and lead to countless new subscriptions to the Disney streaming service. Expect Netflix cancellations to spike, and content to continue to suffer. Up next will be a show where Jenny McCarthy preaches her anti-vax doctorin’.f
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First of all, she and her goop brand have been called out as snake oil salesmen multiple times. Whether it’s vaginal steaming or vaginal eggs, none of it is going to reverse a chakra or battle endocrine disruptors. Whatever the hell any of that means.
One of her own medical advisers for the goop site said HIV doesn’t cause AIDS. So take everything on the show with a grain of pink Himalayan salt. Her brand of out of touch advertisement blended with some sort of pyramid scheme for rich, bored, affluent housewives is dangerous.
Netflix should not have signed off on this show. They should have outright rejected the nonsense Paltrow peddles, like cancer caused by sunscreen or underwire bras, daily colon cleanses, and psychic vampire repellent (LOL).
Forgive me, but goop is poop, and it’s not just because of the coffee enemas. The whole “detoxifying” trend is ludicrous and has no basis in medicine. She and her group can make claims about alkalizing a body or banishing toxins, but it’s all nonsense.
If you want to watch real doctors, try Dr. Pimple Popper or the podiatrists solving horrible foot ailments on My Feet are Killing Me.
Paltrow is out of touch.
Whether it’s magical celery elixirs that cure rectal prolapse or ridiculous diets that have a grown person eating four kale chips for dinner, Paltrow just doesn’t get it. Everything she promotes should be flagged for spam on some sort of Netflix filter. She is woefully unaware of what regular people need or want, much like when she tried to survive on SNAP benefits by getting black beans, fresh greens, and seven limes.
And that doesn’t even dip a toe into the waters of her irresponsible, wannabe Sex in the City recommendations for $300 sweaters hand-woven by impoverished babushkas. It’s money-grubbing nonsense and could bankrupt someone.
Pseudo-science
There is a book about her scientific lunacy that does the topic far more justice than I could ever do. Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?: How the Famous Sell Us Elixirs of Health, Beauty & Happiness is a worthwhile precursor to anyone watching the goop lab. Timothy Caulfield provides a good read into Paltrow’s world of essential oils counter-balancing free radicals and indoctrinated housewives releasing all their toxins.
Everything can’t have healing powers or peculiar hints of positivity. Stop the scam. Stop the health summits. Stop the goop lab.
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The only way the goop lab can be redeemable is if it turns out to be mockumentary instead of documentary. Celebrities are not health gurus, regardless of the placebo effect it has on women who pick up tabloid magazines at the grocery store.