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Goop cons the gullible with “treatments” for Long Covid

March 3, 2021 by Dave
goop a very modern snake oil

Long Covid is quite distinctly real. The pseudoscientific nonsense that Goop offers to supposedly alleviate it is not.

Categories scam, Skepticism Tags COVID-19, GOOP, health, scam, snake oil, wellbeing Leave a comment

A Doctor Replies to Gwyneth Paltrow

May 10, 2021May 30, 2017 by Dave

Gwyneth Paltrow has a bit of a reputation for promoting weird things via Goop, her lifestyle website. It has however proven to be so successful that she has quit being an actress to focus on it full time now. So what exactly does she offer via Goop? Here are a couple of examples directly from … Read more

Categories Skeptic news, Skepticism Tags Gwyneth Paltrow, snake oil, woo Leave a comment

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