01-18-2020, 04:34 AM
Deep-dive into "stupid."
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/01/...-unsee-it/
In so many ways, the goop lab with Gwyneth Paltrow is exactly what you'd expect based on what we already know about the Goop brand. The series provides a platform for junk science, gibberish, and unproven health claims from snake-oil-salesmen guests. It's a platform on which respected, trained medical experts are not considered the authorities on health and medical topics; where logic and critical thinking are enemies of open-mindedness; where anecdotes about undefined health improvements are considered evidence for specific medical treatment claims; where the subjective experiences of a few select individuals are equivalent to the results of randomized, controlled clinical trials; and where promoting unproven, potentially dangerous health claims is a means to empower women...
But, beyond all of that, the show is just, well, boring...
Beth Mole should get some sort of medal for wading through something so awful just to bring us a review.
Paltrow goes to a naturopathic doctor for a "vampire facial," which involves injecting platelets harvested from her own blood into her face. Loehnen gets 100 acupuncture needles in her face, and Lauria has a plastic surgeon pull the skin on her face back with dissolvable threads, which leaves all manner of weird puckering.
Overall, by the end of the episode, they all look the same as they did at the start, and Paltrow says she has resumed her previous diet, which involves French fries. I, meanwhile, may have aged five biological years watching this 30-minute episode. And the next episode almost gave me a rage stroke...
I think her bosses should shave their heads in sympathy.
I see drinking in my future...
I hear that shock therapy is good for eliminating bad memories.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/01/...-unsee-it/
In so many ways, the goop lab with Gwyneth Paltrow is exactly what you'd expect based on what we already know about the Goop brand. The series provides a platform for junk science, gibberish, and unproven health claims from snake-oil-salesmen guests. It's a platform on which respected, trained medical experts are not considered the authorities on health and medical topics; where logic and critical thinking are enemies of open-mindedness; where anecdotes about undefined health improvements are considered evidence for specific medical treatment claims; where the subjective experiences of a few select individuals are equivalent to the results of randomized, controlled clinical trials; and where promoting unproven, potentially dangerous health claims is a means to empower women...
But, beyond all of that, the show is just, well, boring...
Beth Mole should get some sort of medal for wading through something so awful just to bring us a review.
Paltrow goes to a naturopathic doctor for a "vampire facial," which involves injecting platelets harvested from her own blood into her face. Loehnen gets 100 acupuncture needles in her face, and Lauria has a plastic surgeon pull the skin on her face back with dissolvable threads, which leaves all manner of weird puckering.
Overall, by the end of the episode, they all look the same as they did at the start, and Paltrow says she has resumed her previous diet, which involves French fries. I, meanwhile, may have aged five biological years watching this 30-minute episode. And the next episode almost gave me a rage stroke...
I think her bosses should shave their heads in sympathy.
I see drinking in my future...
I hear that shock therapy is good for eliminating bad memories.