Netflix has received backlash for certain shows that subscribers feel are promoting pseudoscience. This came under particular scrutiny with the popularity of Gwyneth Paltrow’s “The Goop Lab.” Before each episode of “The Goop Lab” came this: “The following series is designed to entertain and inform — not provide medical advice.”
The show focuses on things like energy healing, psychic mediums, and alternative medicine. Yet even with the disclaimer before the episode, “The Goop Lab” did everything it could to give itself a sense of scientific authority. The show would promote carefully selected case studies and it gave voices to individuals crediting alternative treatments with making their lives better. None of which had any scientific credibility.
“The Goop Lab” wasn’t the only Netflix show to promote such bizarre ideals. A 2017 hit documentary called “What The Health” was rife with carefully selected studies and wholly misleading data. Another 2017 documentary called “The Magic Pill” focusing on the benefits of the ketogenic diet was also hugely flawed in this area.
Many argued that this kind of pseudoscience was (and is) more befitting of conspiracy theorists on YouTube rather than a serious streaming platform.
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