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TIL that Gwyneth Paltrow is not just a harmless grifter (arstechnica.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I never went as far as to defend Gwyneth Paltrow, but after her Hot Ones appearance I created a post (which I will link in the comments) where I suggested that she's done no more harm than male grifters and that the dislike of her as a person was primarily due to misogyny. That's before I learned about her promotion of these unproven "vampire facials". Now an unlicensed clinic performing this procedure has given at least three women HIV. You guys were right and I was wrong.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I mean, yeah, she's to blame for promoting an obviously batshit crazy process, but she was NOT involved with any of the facilities distributing HIV. That's a bit of a stretch.

It would be like, I dunno, blaming your favorite tattooed celebrity because you got hepatitis c from some back alley artist.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Tbf, it's more like the tattooed celebrity was promoting back alley artists. It's a weird middle ground

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago

I understand that she said it was a good and helpful procedure.

I don't think it's at all fair to say she told people to go to unlicensed places

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I see what you're saying, but the treatment is unproven even under sanitary conditions and she probably helped make people aware of it using her largish social media platform. I say she deserves at least some of the blame.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago

So? When done safely perhaps it offers no benefit and very little risk - kind of like a tattoo

Maybe it does work. We don't know.