Goop is finally hiring a fact-checker and it’s about time

Goop — Gwyneth Paltrow’s snake oil-peddling lifestyle enterprise known for its questionable “health and wellness” claims — is at long last hiring a fact-checker. And, my goodness, it is about bloody time. 

In a profile in the New York Times, Paltrow expressed her, uhhh, lack of enthusiasm for making the hire, which she called a “necessary growing pain.” 

For the fortunate people not yet acquainted with the site, Goop is perhaps best known for calling on readers to put jade eggs inside their vaginas in the name of sexual empowerment. Side note: never do this. It also instructed readers to use coffee to clean out their colons and to lose weight by not eating. Read more…

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