A lot of people are asking me about the piece on @goop and @GwynethPaltrow today.
Allow me to share some thoughts.
I found the writing really funny and nuanced and personally felt Paltrow came off very Stepford as in obsessed with some kind of odd perfection 1.
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@GwynethPaltrow and@goop have featured an AIDS denialist, a dude who talks with ghosts about fruit, a medium, a doctor who says your dead brain can be cured with love, anti vaccine doctors. Those statements stand on their own. Ethical people don’t do that 4.Show this thread -
Their fact checker will likely do what their current one is doing with the “speculative but promising” stupid ranking system. A word salad. It is part of the grift. 5
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The idea that they are “starting conversations” is bullshit. They sell the crap products that generated those “conversations” 6.pic.twitter.com/jPLuAJR9dW
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The privilege on display is stunning. Genetic. Financial. Social. Paltrow will give every interview she gets because the more you think she is odd the more clicks she gets. 7.
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Bragging about page views from articles that experts call out as unethical suggests one isn’t in it for the health as does the reluctance to get a fact checker. 8.
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I’m a single mom who is a doctor with no house manager who writes in her spare time and I get > 200,000 visitors a month on my free blog about health, given the difference in resources I think I’m actually doing better. Yeah science! And I can sleep well at night 9. The end
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P.S. thank u to everyone here who has ever sent me links, been my expert, helped me find an expert, corrected my typos, challenged me for proof, fought my trolls and shared my stuff. I honestly believe you are all part of my team and thank u all from the bottom of my heart
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I love how she told her class it's never clickbait, and in the same conversation extolled the virtue of "monetizing those eyeballs."
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Yes, and when so many are anti-intellectual and have little trust in the medical field.
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