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Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop $120 'Bio-Frequency Healing' Sticker Packs Get Shot Down by NASA (fastcompany.com)

Posted by msmash on from the how-to-scam-101 dept.

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.

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  1. Health Advice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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..."

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    1. Re:Health Advice by Pascoea · · Score: 4, Insightful

      7. Don't listen to anybody that has been paid by someone else to get you to do/eat/take something.

    2. Re: Health Advice by Brockmire · · Score: 5, Insightful

      If he told you ten minutes, you would have done 1 minute. Your doctor was a genius.

    3. Re: Health Advice by nitehawk214 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      "drinking water at your normal desire" is the definition of well hydrated.

      Drinking shit that isn't water fucks this up, however.

      --
      I'm a good cook. I'm a fantastic eater. - Steven Brust
  2. Re:The fact she sells these at $120 by Nemyst · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The worst is that I don't think your point is correct. I think there's probably an awful lot of people for whom the $120 is extremely expensive, but they take it anyway because they think it's worth it in the long run. Maybe they even use that in place of proper medication/medical care. All of these people are praying upon the poorly educated (which is generally the poor, but also definitely include some rich people).