What does Goop get right?

Beyond Today

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4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In her new Netflix series The Goop Lab, Gwyneth Paltrow skates the fine line between wellness, pseudoscience and medicine. From orgasms and mushrooms, to ice baths and mediums, Gwyneth and the team tackle wellness methods that sit just outside the mainstream. While some of the scientific claims in the TV show stand up to closer scrutiny, many scientists and journalists worry about the ones that don’t. But why does it matter how scientific they are, when people say the treatments help them? In this episode Matthew speaks to science producer and host of ‘The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread’ podcast Greg Foot about why, even when it’s working, it matters if Goop doesn’t check out. Presenter: Matthew Price Produced by Lucy Hancock and Katie Gunning Mixed by Emma Crowe Editor: Philly Beaumont

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:06.3	Hello, I'm Matthew Price.
0:07.8	This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4.
0:10.5	Every day we ask one big question about one big story.
0:14.0	Today, what does Goop get right?
0:25.0	I guess you could say that Gwyneth Peltro is almost as famous now for her acting as she is for her alternative
0:38.1	190 million pound wellness empire which is called Goop and the Goop lab is a new
0:47.0	Netflix series which Gwinneth has just brought out. She's kind of skating a fine line between wellness and
0:58.2	pseudo-science and actual medicine. She's certainly faced a lot of anger from the press for it. They
1:07.8	can't stand the series, which starts with one disclaimer.
1:13.2	This is what they say.
1:14.4	The following series is designed to entertain and inform,
1:18.6	not provide medical advice.
1:21.7	Now, the show's good fun, it's very LA, it also feels quite tongue in
1:26.5	cheek. There's a lot of this. Wow. So cool. We teach women how to orgasm.
1:33.0	Wow.
1:34.0	So we can be with the spirit of the mushroom.
1:37.0	So fascinating.
1:39.0	There are some cracking TV moments.
1:41.0	You're working the pelvic floor muscle, breathing, rocking, squeezing, that's it.
1:48.3	But one of the problems that the press and plenty of other people have with the series is that Goop is presenting a lot of the
1:57.7	stuff as science.
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