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New York State Medical Agency Opens Investigation Into Goop’s “Trusted Expert” Kelly Brogan
Read more: New York State Medical Agency Opens Investigation Into Goop’s “Trusted Expert” Kelly BroganThe NYS Office of Professional Medical Conduct (a branch of the NY Department of Health) is investigating Dr. Brogan, a licensed psychiatrist, relating to her claims that the coronavirus potentially does not exist, and for potentially misleading about her board certifications. Via my Atlanta, GA reporter friend Peter M. Heimlich, who requested the investigation:
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David “Avocado” Wolfe is Hawking Unproven Coronavirus Cures
Read more: David “Avocado” Wolfe is Hawking Unproven Coronavirus CuresThe NutriBullet spokesman and flat-earth conspiracist is selling colloidal silver, medicinal mushrooms, charcoal, and an air purification system. Wolfe is known for making out-there claims. For example, he claims salt prevents the oceans from levitating off the earth, and gravity is a toxin that can be combated by hanging upside down (as a cure for arthritis).…
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Gwyneth Paltrow’s Medical Mentor: “God Bless Every Covid Virus”
Read more: Gwyneth Paltrow’s Medical Mentor: “God Bless Every Covid Virus”Goop contributor Dr. Habib Sadeghi is making bizarre coronavirus-themed content. During a podcast interview last month, Gwyneth Paltrow’s longtime medical mentor and Goop regular Dr. Habib Sadeghi attributed every pandemic from the last 150 years to the “electrification of earth.” Since then, he’s been making increasingly bizarre coronavirus-themed content in a seeming attempt to get…
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Another Goop Contributor is Spreading Discredited Coronavirus Conspiracies
Read more: Another Goop Contributor is Spreading Discredited Coronavirus ConspiraciesDr. Habib Sadeghi, an LA-based integrative medicine practitioner and personal mentor to Goop founder Gwyneth Paltrow, has linked the virus to the “electrification of earth.” source Last month, I wrote for The Daily Beast about Goop contributor/holistic psychiatrist Kelly Brogan’s coronavirus conspiracy theories. Now another high-profile Goop contributor is spreading similar theories linking the virus…
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The Daily Beast: Goop-Approved Doctor Pushing Coronavirus Conspiracies
Read more: The Daily Beast: Goop-Approved Doctor Pushing Coronavirus ConspiraciesGoop contributor/psychiatrist Kelly Brogan has been spreading junk scientific claims and conspiracy theories about the coronavirus. Here’s my latest for The Daily Beast. Via “The Gwyneth Paltrow-Approved Doctor Pushing Wacky Coronavirus Conspiracies” by Dean Sterling Jones, The Daily Beast, March 24, 2020: Last week, Gwyneth Paltrow’s “modern lifestyle brand” Goop announced it was closing stores…
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This Goop Author is Spreading Discredited Pseudoscientific Theories About the Coronavirus
Read more: This Goop Author is Spreading Discredited Pseudoscientific Theories About the CoronavirusKelly Brogan, M.D., a New York Times bestselling author/psychiatrist who writes for Gwyneth Paltrow’s alt-med Goop newsletter, has accrued over 30,000 views on Instagram by claiming the coronavirus likely doesn’t exist. [UPDATE: Click here for my follow-up to this story in The Daily Beast.] source Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop is a self-proclaimed “lifestyle brand” and online…
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Unappealing
Read more: UnappealingCrisis management reps for complainant in “Banting for Babies trial” say they were inspired by controversial “apartheid architect” Hendrik Verwoerd I recently blogged about the Association for Dietetics in South Africa (ADSA), whose former president reported University of Capetown professor Tim Noakes to medical authorities for a single tweet in February 2014 (click here to read more). ADSA…