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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.
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.
she didn't invent the process, and the problem here is safe and sanitary practices, not the fact that it's woowoo fake science grifter shit that paltrow likes to profit off of...
i dunno, it's a stretch to turn it into a "til"... but she should be culpable for spreading snake oil anyways...
I hear your objection to making this a TIL. Do you have a suggestion as to a better community to host this?
not the onion? there's a lot of "weird news" and anti capitalist stuff it would fit in...
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.
Tbf, it's more like the tattooed celebrity was promoting back alley artists. It's a weird middle ground
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