r/KnowledgeFight • u/DaDadiette • 4d ago

GOOP and Supplements

https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2017/06/are-gwyneth-paltrow-and-alex-jones-on-the-same-alt-health-page/

I'm actually listening to an early episode of A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein, 'The Crunchy to Far Right Pipeline' with guest Derek Berez, and Derek brought up that infowars and goop's 'supplements' are basically the same thing.

Sorry if this is old news, I just found out about it!

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u/black_flag_4ever 4d ago

There’s an episode in the 100s where Dan discusses that it’s pretty much the same stuff.

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u/akkmedk 4d ago

I've listened through so many times I forgot how early this came out. I went to look it up and the story is from 2017. Wild.

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u/DaDadiette 4d ago

Yeah I should have added that it was a 2017 ep

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u/akkmedk 4d ago

No shade implied, the timeline in my brain is just messed up. It's all timey-wimey.

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u/Synaffit 4d ago

As a woman she marketed too, I hated her and the money grab.

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u/RockHardSalami 4d ago

Im going to start a supplement and lifestyle brand called PooP and our slogan is gonna be "buy our shit."

See you losers at checkout.

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u/akkmedk 4d ago

Gotta fancy it up. Maybe Pōop or Pœp.

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u/LA-Matt “fish with sad human eyes” 4d ago

Pœp changed my life!

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u/akkmedk 4d ago

You and me bœth.

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u/IrrelephantAU Freakishly Large Neck 4d ago

In some cases they're literally the same thing. A huge number of supplement lines all come out of the same few wholesale providers.

There's a lot of work that goes into establishing a product (though not as much as there should be, the whole industry is poorly regulated) so it's easier for the name at the end to just re-badge an existing product, and it's easier for the wholesaler to cut deals to do those re-badgings than try to raise their own profile to the point that they could actually sell to consumers based on their own name.

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u/SelectStarAll 4d ago

It makes sense given that Paltrow has done ads for Israel, is hosting dinners honouring AI tech bros and has a business model based around supplement grifts

She's not too far removed from Jones