Why Gwyneth Paltrow Shouldn’t Speak Off Screen

Gwyneth Paltrow: Actress, Scientist and Nutritionist - By Her Own Rights

Gwyneth Paltrow, on screen; good(ish) actress renowned for her role of Pepper Potts in the Iron Man film trilogy. Off screen however, a militant pseudoscientific nonsense-peddling maniac with the scientific knowledge of Deepak Chopra. As a star on the big screen, many people will (and do) idolise her, following her ‘tips’ and ‘hints’ to live a better ‘healthier life’. Last year she was renowned for her famous conscious uncoupling from Chris Martin, although it appears that over-time she has consciously uncoupled from reality with the most absurd of claims. The ridiculous human, believes that organic food can ‘detox’ you and you sweat out ‘toxins’ at a ‘soul cycle’ (genuinely an exercise to ‘find and exercise the soul’). This woman is so incorrect on everything that Timothy Caulfield has produced a book entitled: Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything? In 2008, Paltrow launched her website ‘GOOP’. - Which, candidly speaking, sounds like something you call someone who is being an absolute idiot. Or, as she puts it: Giving out guides to eating, recipes and to sell organic municipal products. Paraphrasing, of course.

 

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Water Has Memory…A Recall If Ever We Needed One

In 2014, Paltrow claimed to be an advocate for the knowledge of Masaru Emoto, a ‘scientist’ who has a very low reputation in the scientific community for publishing books on how shouting ‘bad words’ at certain substances (such as water or rice) can make it go bad, because it remembers the negative words it has been exposed to.

“I have long had Dr Emoto's coffee table book on how negativity changes the structure of water, how the molecules behave differently depending on the words or music being expressed around it.”

Another advocate of this level of ‘scientific’ knowledge is Vani Hari so you can see the direction in thinking these people are heading.  I have discussed the ‘work’ of Emoto before in a previous blog here. But the gist goes: get some water, shout ‘Hitler’ at one glass. Talk happy thoughts to the other. Freeze, look at results under microscope. You will see that the negatively exposed water has an irregular shaped crystal structure and the positive exposed one has a beautiful composed structure. I can’t argue with science like that. 

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Vaginal Steaming

Yes, you read that correctly; steaming your vagina makes you healthy.  Now, I have been taught that the vagina is pretty self-cleaning and naturally lubricating, but alas; Gwyneth has found a way to make it cleaner:

“You sit on what is essentially a mini-throne, and a combination of infrared and mugwort steam cleanses your uterus, et al. It is an energetic release — not just a steam douche — that balances female hormone levels."

Infrared steam…now there’s a scientific concept. Why do you have to aim the steam directly at your vagina in order to balance your hormones? How on earth does she expect the steam to reach her ovaries to stimulate hormones? Not only that, why would steam stimulate the release or desorption of hormones? Also, how on earth does she think steam is going to get to her uterus, steam…it would burn? There are a lot of nerve endings in genitals, for the obvious reason. Having steamed them live vegetables would hurt. But it’s okay because it is infrared water, whatever the hell that is.

Why does her vagina need more energy? In fact, the steam being placed where there is more mucus is likely to enhance the chances of bacterial infections, such as a yeastinfection. From what I gather, this woman gets off on the possibility of bacterial infections. This woman is insane.

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Let me start straight off with a quote taken directly from GOOP where major research scientist Gwyneth Paltrow states:

“While I was reading up on the subject [*of toxins in children*], I was seized with fear about what the research said. Foetuses, infants and toddlers are basically unable to metabolise toxins the way that adults are and we are constantly filling our environments with chemicals that may or may not be safe. The research is troubling; the incidence of diseases in children such as asthma, cancer and autism have shot up exponentially and many children we all know and love have been diagnosed with developmental issues”

 *SIGH*

‘Research’ in the terms of someone who isn’t essentially a scientist, and has never written a scientific paper (even at undergrad level) essentially falls into two categories:

• Google search: Blogs, opinions and overly unscientific thoughts on subjects through anecdotal evidences. Also, the interpretations of people reading scientific articles, which is worse than actually reading the article itself and coming to an incorrect conclusion.
• Google Scholar Search: May as well be a rehash of the former. Academic journals are hard for academics to sometimes read, let alone someone without a scientific education. Reading the abstracts of scientific articles is really, really not the same as reading the article. 

Paltrow claims that shampoo is the problem in society and implied a link between cancer and shampoo. I have no idea how one would be getting shampoo onto the head of a foetus, let alone studied it – but hey, she’s researched it so it must be true. Then again, if you put shampoo in your steam when you steam your vagina, then by her logic you could theoretically get it there…but in actual fact, it’s a load of bull. I’m assuming she can only used logic such as:

·      Children with developmental issues have probably used shampoo.

·      People with cancer have probably used shampoo.

·      I used the word shampoo twice there, in 100% of those cases, shampoo is the cause.

- What does she wash her hair with? Well, apparently, she washes it with hypocrisy. Her website sells ‘clean everyday shampoo’ at $20 a bottle, which contains the main constituents of most shampoos.  

Shes Even Into Quantum Mechanics

Any scientist knows reaching into the depths of quantum physics is not only hard, but also ridiculously fun to study. Gwyneth picked up that it was fun to study, but didn’t actually bother to study it.

"Many believe that intuition is 'woo woo' and vague and fake. This is not the case. And now, science is proving this through quantum physics." - Paltrow

Apparently, through the use of seeing how chemicals react and electrons move through an atom can show how to improve intuition. As opposed to discovering the origin of the universe with this completely bastardised science, they decided to use it to delve into the human psyche. No, quantum physics has nothing to do, shockingly, with chakras, auras and intuition, which in turn, have nothing to do with science.

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Is this the woman you want as a role model for a younger generation? If your answer is still ‘yes’, then re-read this blog until it sinks in; she an unscientific moron making absurd claims. SHE THINKS WATER HAS MEMORY FOR PETES SAKE. There are many more claims on her website, but I hung around that website more than I really cared too. For example: her take on genetics or how to get ‘toxic mercury’ out of our systems, where she claims toxic mercury in fish, water and dental fillings are killing us by ‘primarily’ taking hold in the brain. Although I am glad she didn’t step into the treacherous world of vaccinations, she’s already out of her depth and probably knows it at this stage.

I get that many people follow things like celebrity diets. Celebrities gain ground as medical advisors because of their superior positions. But do think; many of them are not doctors, they’re not scientifically educated and they are most definitely not dieticians. Dieticians study to become healthcare professionals; nutritionists (such as Patrol and Hari) don’t know anything about food other than the disproved mantra ‘organic is health’. Whilst these stupid celebrity diets and claims may seem helpful and healthy, cutting out wheat, gluten and dairy products can cause a variety of issues in people who do not need to cut it out. This is an abuse of power and position. If this woman spared one minute to think about the impact of what she is saying and doing, or spent a little time allowing for a psych evaluation, she, and people who follow/believe her, would be much better off.