This may be an unpopular opinion but I just don't understand the hate against Gwyneth. She's conning people who are rich enough to afford a $75 candle and stupid enough to fall for marketing that borders on the ridiculous. She doesn't even try to hide it. I assume that most of her customers buy her products just for the sheer absurdity of it and not because they actually believe in the benefits. She's smart enough to cash-in on her brand image and market to the rich rather than the poor.
If she were profiting by conning poor people that would have been a whole other matter. But it is difficult to feel any sympathy for the type of people that she markets to. If her customers are happy to pay for her ridiculous products, why should anyone else have a problem with it?
It may be marketed and priced towards the relatively well off, but that doesn't mean that those who are less well off won't either try and save up to "treat" themselves, or pay out for the inevitable cheaper knock off versions*.
Much worse though is that it's peddling anti-science, whilst pretending (at least on occasion) to have some evidential basis.
Slightly off topic, but to me, the pro-plague movement is just the most obvious issue with a failure to accept science and the scientific method. To me, this is a much wider issue than just pure science. Most, if not all, public policy could be radically improved with proper use of randomised trials and reliance on proper evidence. How wonderful would it be to have politicians willing to accept (and say) they don't know the best thing to do about X, but they're going to conduct proper research to find out...
* can you have a knock off version of something that's absolute bollocks in the first place??
