Gwyneth Paltrow: Health Hazard?
July 27, 2018
Gwyneth Paltrow, the actor turned head of a vast lifestyle-and-wellness enterprise called Goop, personifies the power of celebrities to influence everyday people’s health, often in ways that turn science on its head, says a long-form read in the New York Times Magazine. But rather than ignore potentially harmful pseudoscientific claims, two scientists who study such matters recently noted in Issues that “the rise in celebrity culture will doubtless create multiple and regular opportunities for scientists and clinicians to spread evidence-based and credible scientific ideas as part of an ongoing public discussion of science—if the scientific community is prepared and willing to engage.”