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Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop $120 'Bio-Frequency Healing' Sticker Packs Get Shot Down by NASA (fastcompany.com)
From a report: Goop had claimed the costly "Body Vibes" stickers were "made with the same conductive carbon material NASA uses to line space suits so they can monitor an astronaut's vitals during wear" and because of that were able to "target imbalances" of the human body's energy frequencies when they get thrown out of whack, reports Gizmodo. The thing is, NASA confirmed to Gizmodo that they "do not have any conductive carbon material lining the spacesuits" of astronauts. Further reading: The unbearable wrongness of Gwyneth Paltrow - The Outline.
And Tang.
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Back to selling the vagina steamer, or whatever it is.
If you could sue on the basis of 'prove it!'.
Don't make it easy - if you fail to win the suit you'd have to cover reasonable legal costs or something - but when someone advertises a magic sticker that fixes your health problems, ANYONE ought to be able to sue the snake oil salesmen regardless of whether or not they have personally purchased the product.
I'm sure there are packs of hungry lawyers out there who would love to make a living reading ads searching for a payday, I say let's put them to good use.
1. Don't eat too much
2. Eat lots of different things
3. Eat mostly plants
4. Get enough exercise, ask your doctor how much
5. Go to your doctor regularly and do what he/she says
6. Unless your doctor says you need them, don't take vitamins, or supplements, or any pill or liquid that says "this product has not been evaluated by the FDA to treat any..."
There, that's all you need. Just saved you a bunch of money. You're welcome.
I know; you'll miss me.
disproves the belief that being rich means you must be smart.
In fact, to all appearances the US has developed the kind of feckless hereditary aristocracy that P.G. Wodehouse used to satirize in his novels -- only American women are every bit the equal of men when it comes to inanity.
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Depends on whether she believes this crap or not.
Pages upon pages on you fisting and being fisted by other dudes is not a novel. It may be hot, and may make me blow my load all over the coffee table, but it's not a novel.
"Body Vibes" stickers were "made with the same conductive carbon material NASA uses to line space suits so they can monitor an astronaut's vitals during wear" and because of that were able to "target imbalances" of the human body's energy frequencies when they get thrown out of whack
I feel dumber for having read that.
Time to offend someone
Same as snake oil... make a claim you know is false but appeals to what people might believe... even when someone does show proof it is a scam, there will still be people who believe it... because you can't be there at every sale and every influencing moment... even if you could it's not worth the effort.
My Bio-frequency is 42 fubars per lightyear moment, I don't need her product for that
Philip DeFranco had a video about that and Casey Neistat's latest video being a Samsung ad in disguise yesterday. Good episode.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhro-CO1QA4
back to planet of the apps with her.
She should've sold something more reputable, like carbon credits; then the company wouldn't even need to ship a product at all.
As an actual scientist sometimes I wish I was shameless enough to get into this sort of business. You apparently don't have to even make it sound plausible! I suppose I do have coworkers that sell essential oils on the side, which is more or less the same thing. Maybe I'll sell essential oil distillation kits out of 'toxin free' glass...
And partisan-mindedness keeps americans from addressing the systemic problem of anti-science and capitalistic exploitation of the fucktarded. It's always those other guys doing it, right...
Sounds more like Kook to me.
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
Just another obscenely wealthy elitist liberal telling the rest of the world what's wrong with them and how they should live because we're all just the dirty unwashed masses so ignorant and lost without their guidance.
On behalf of Slashdot, I'd like to implore the editors to tell us who these people are.
I could see someone who played a part in LOTR trying to work that into an entire career, but is there any other reason that "Gwyneth Paltrow" matters to nerds?
"No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public."
- Posted from my iPhone.
Have gnu, will travel.
Ah it's you again*. While I find your fascination with male-on-male fisting a bit weird I have to reply as that such a text could very well be a novel, a pornographic** novel but still a novel.
(* I'm assuming you are the same dude(?) that have posted similar things earlier)
(** assuming it is written for pornographic purposes)
They mean Mylar, right?
There are carbon atoms in it, it's NON-conductive. But they didn't say it conducts electricity, so they could probably get away with that.
This reminds me of the marketing scam where some guy is trying to sell stocks relating to "oro blanco" (white gold) as some new age super fuel that gets nearly infinite gas mileage. What is it? Lithium carbonate, like you'd use for rechargeable batteries.
I mean lying about the contents of your product is against the law.
Sorry, teleporters just kill you and then make a copy. A perfect, soul-less copy.
I look forward to see what kinds of excellent audio equipment Goop will carry.
is Paltrow's character in the Ironman movies is a no-nonsense type, so folks have come to think of her as such (since it's what 90% of us know her from). Seeing her buy into this new age (junk science? I wouldn't even call it that) nonsense makes for an amusing cognitive dissonance. Sure, the more clever chaps know she's just scamming rich women but there's plenty that are just scratching their heads.
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She probably believes what she is claiming. I'm sure the whole thing is something that someone else pitched to her and got her to invest in and fund. The person who sold her the idea obviously lied their asses off but she likely believes everything they told her.
Her companies response to NASA's statement. : "That's what NASA Wants you to believe".
If you are dumb enough to stick a rock in your vagina, boy do you deserve what you get!
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I'll take "Things That Make My Brain Hurt" for $2000, Alex.
"If alternative medicine worked, it'd just be called medicine."
Maybe she should spend less time thinking with her Yoni and get an actual education.
were immune to fake information of any sort. I guess they are only better looking...
1. Don't eat too much
How precise. And wrong. I assume you're talking about preventing getting overweight. People don't get fat by eating a lot, they eat a lot because they are fat. Fat regulation is a function of your hormones, in particular insulin. The TYPES of food you eat directly affect your insulin levels, not how much you eat. That directly affects how your body stores and uses fat.
2. Eat lots of different things
More imprecision. If you want to lose weight or be more healthy, there are definitely foods to avoid: sugar (in all its forms), grains (yes corn is a grain), grain products, and oils made from them, legumes/peanuts. Starchy vegetables and certain fruits (like grapes/bananas). And dairy, if you don't tolerate it well. This is because they either wreak havoc on your insulin levels, or are inflammatory in your system. There are foods that are good for you, like animals and animal products. Unprocessed oils like olive, coconut, and butter. And lots of eggs. That will get you most of the way there. Then you can go even further and go organic and grass-fed instead of mass-raised animals that are given those bad foods as feed.
3. Eat mostly plants
UGH. Terrible advice. We evolved by eating meat. Lots of plants are not that good for your body or your brain. (see above) Plants can be very good for you, but eating mostly plants is awful advice.
4. Get enough exercise, ask your doctor how much
LOL. Ask your doctor. Be active, but you don't have to kill yourself or spend hours upon hours at the gym. Calories in/calories burned is a myth. Next please.
5. Go to your doctor regularly and do what he/she says
LOL. Your doctor will prescribe you drugs for every little thing. And office visits are not cheap. They are going to tell you the safest (for them) advice, middle-of-the-road, textbook answer. Not to mention that they are generalists, they don't tailor their responses to you. They certainly don't keep up on advances in medicine, they are still stuck in the old "food pyramid" days that is based on un-researched opinions, not scientific facts. Next please.
6. Unless your doctor says you need them, don't take vitamins, or supplements, or any pill or liquid that says "this product has not been evaluated by the FDA to treat any..."
This implies that whatever the FDA approves is ok for you. It also means that you have zero say in what you take, which is stupid. Educate yourself.
There, that's all you need. Just saved you a bunch of money. You're welcome.
Hardly. Sheesh. This is a bunch of BS, disguised as simple wisdom. This is like saying "if you have a problem with your PC, contact Microsoft support"
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
Combine two markets we already know are gullible and fact-averse. Re-market these as an anti-autism patch to use with vaccines.
Why do urban legends propagate? They're always described in exciting but plausible ways and often contain just a grain of truth. Moreover, occasionally an urban legend is true, as you can see from a minority of entries on the Snopes database.
Interest in quack medicine stems from a variety of factors, different for different people, including:
- People with real health problems who were let down by real MDs. This happens a lot, because not every MD can diagnose every illness. Meanwhile, so many alternative practitioners claim to be willing to help in ways that MDs "won't."
- Various paranoid delusions about the government or "establishment" doctors trying to control or poison us.
- Actual instances of governments letting us down (e.g. Flint, Michigan).
- People with mental instability or who have been convinced they have some nebulous malady.
- People with very minor health problems (e.g. a mild dairy sensitivity) who self-diagnose as something much worse.
- People who read too much into what they got from 23andme and nutrihacker.
- People who fall victims to charlatans who want to make money from your real or perceived illnesses.
- On and on.
What keeps people sucked in is that what the charlatans are saying have a grain of plausibility and truth.
Take toxins for example. So many of these weirdos go on and on about toxins, but they're almost never specific about it. My MD (who has her degree from Yale) has a list of common ones. If someone telling you about toxins can't cough up something like that, you should tell them to fuck off.
However, there are indeed toxins in our environment. Plus, things you eat and byproducts of pathogens also bring toxins into or bodies. In fact, most plants produce toxins as an adaptation against predation, and as consumers of those organisms, we are also counter-adapted to efficiently denature those toxins. Aside from some of the nastier ones (e.g. like an arsenic overdose), a healthy liver does a good job of cleaning that up, and you excrete them as waste. I don't recommend exposing yourself to too many environmental toxins, and I would suggest avoiding certain conventionally grown foods that absorb higher amounts of pesticides, but pretty much, most people are going to be okay and should just focus on good exercise and a balanced diet (although there is plenty of confusion out there on what constitutes a balanced diet).
What's unfortunate is that there are indeed people who have problems with toxin build-up. But those people have some other underlying condition that scientifically explains why their livers aren't doing such a good job. An obvious one is alcoholics who have wrecked their livers over decades of overconsumption. Another example is people with untreated thyroid function, because there are aspects of detoxification that are regulated by thyroid hormones. I am highly skeptical of "detox programs," because toxin accumulation is never the root cause. If you fix the underlying condition, then your body will detoxify itself. So taking a bunch of crap meant to "stimulate" detox is likely to cause you more harm than good.
I actually have a bunch of symptoms that those people would associate with toxification problems. My MD figured out, for instance, that my thyroid function was not up to par and prescribed T3 supplementation. It is helping because there isn't anything broken about my liver itself.
I have encountered one detox protocol that I didn't think was utter shit. It's called ProtoClear, and all it is is vitamins and other nutrients you already need, but in their biologically active forms. For instance, instead of cyanocobalamin, it contains methylcobalamin. One ingredient I recall that fell short is that it contains folic acid instead of methylfolate. I actually have the MTHFR A1298C mutation, heterozygous, so my body's conversion may not be 100% efficient; it doesn't seem to be a big deal. Anyway, the idea is that if you take these chemicals that you need in their active forms, t
Yep, little wonder most of the intelligent people have already left / stopped commenting.
Liberal media consolidation, the sale of Slashdot for example, has one goal in mind above all: stopping intelligent discourse so people can be crunched down into brainless slaves.
1. Do not take medical advice from the Internet.
There. That will save some time.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
What I wouldn't give to be the rock in gwens vag
I mean she's still pretty hot
PT Barnum was right.
Hey, in all fairness, Indiana Bones and the Temple of Fists had a pretty compelling underlying story.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Agree.
But you can certainly glean information from the internet - good and bad.
Conventional wisdom and 'common sense' are dangerous things, and are often wrong. Just figure out if you believe in science or not, and go from there. Learn how our bodies actually work. The answer won't be in a headline or a twitter message.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
Organic foods are complete bullshit to rip people off. There is no evidence that they are better for you.