Gwyneth Paltrow launched Netflix’s The Goop Lab on January 24, a six-part, 35-minute series that focuses on increasing well-being through alternative methods and therapies. A series of “six mini-documentaries as entertaining as disturbing which creates discomfort”, criticized the magazine “Number“, Pointing to” pseudo-scientific adventures “and the lack of perspective or ethics of the process.
The American star’s “Goop Lab” spawned other similar criticism. But on Thursday, they took on a whole new dimension and came from above. Patron of the National Health Service, the public health system of the United Kingdom, Simon Stevens has indeed said all the evil he thought of this series. And he basically taxed the actress of irresponsible.
“A considerable health risk”
The series “spreads misinformation” and poses “considerable health risk” to the public, he said in a speech at Oxford, recounts the BBC. “In her series Gwyneth Paltrow and her team test the vampire lift and support a masseur who claims to heal acute psychological trauma and its side effects by simply moving his hands three inches above a person’s body,” he said. he lambasted.
Simon Stevens also attacked Goop, the firm created by Gwyneth Paltrow which markets a series of products related to well-being. “His brand peddles vampire repellant, says that chemical sunscreen is a bad idea and promotes colon irrigation and machines for coffee enemas, even though it involves considerable health risks”, a he launched.
Clear announcement
“While the term” fake news “often suggests politics, people’s natural concern for their health and that of their loved ones makes this land particularly fertile for charlatans and the enlightened,” concluded the senior official.
On the side of the series we defended ourselves by recalling that before each episode it is clearly announced that its goal is to “entertain and inform, not to provide medical advice.” “We are transparent when we cover subjects emerging that may not be supported by science or may be in the early stages of validation, “added a spokesperson for Gwyneth Paltrow, said the BBC.
“Psychedelic therapy” and “psychic medium”
Note that in the list of methods presented and tested in the miniseries of the star there is a “psychedelic therapy” practiced under hallucinogenic mushrooms. The vampire facelift that popularized Kim Kardashian: injection into the face of plasma taken from his own blood. “Energy healing” – the contactless massage mentioned by Simon Stevens. Or the presentation of a “psychic medium” which claims to be in contact with the missing relatives of its patients.
Renaud Michiels
Created: 01.31.2020, 6:47 p.m.
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