Dr. Jen Gunter went to Gwyneth Paltrow’s “In Goop Health” event last weekend and wrote up a long recap of what she saw and heard. The audience was made up of women with an average age of 40 who could afford to pay $650 to be subjected to pseudoscience and paranormal prattle at its worst. […]
As I wrote Friday, I was outraged at Stephen Colbert — for whom I’d had a lot of respect for both his comedic and critical thinking skills (Catholicism aside) — for playing nice with Gwyneth Paltrow on his Thursday night “Late Show.” Over the last few years, he’s made fun of Paltrow and her nonsense-promoting […]
I was very disappointed to see Stephen Colbert sucking up to Gwyneth Paltrow last night on “The Late Show.” She was in New York for her Goop health summit, just one part of her empire of pseudoscientific nonsense that sucks in far too many people who believe the garbage recommendations that she and her 150-strong […]
On my Monday radio show, I praised Oprah Winfrey for her #MeToo speech at the Golden Globes, but tried to scuttle any thoughts of her running for president. My major objection to her has always been her embrace of nonsense and her enabling of people who advocate alternative medicine and flat-out scams, like Mehmet Oz, […]
The FDA announced last week that it will crack down on some homeopathic products. Note the word “some” in that sentence, when it should be “all.” Homeopathy is nothing but a scam, with companies producing bogus health aids that do nothing but enrich those corporations to the tune of about $3 billion a year. Walgreens, CVS, and […]
Last week, CBS News reported, “the California Department of Public Health is releasing guidelines about cellphone radiation and how you can reduce your exposure.” The story quoted Dr. Karen Smith: We recognize that there are a lot of people in the general public that have some concerns about their cellphones and whether using a cellphone […]