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A review by kil3yp
Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?: When Celebrity Culture and Science Clash by Timothy Caulfield
3.0
This book took a left hand turn downhill really quickly.
First off - the title is misleading. To a point. The first chapter is exactly what I expected/wanted: documented and scientifically performed research that underlines why fad diets, lifestyles and other regimes most often promoted by celebrities are bullshit. It was glorious. I devoured it.
Then come parts one and two. Here we lose a lot of science - while studies are cited, they are admittedly (by the author) not the most methodological. And even more annoyingly, the author admits (in a roundabout way), that some of this is stemming from his own failed shot at celebrity. These parts aren't telling us why we shouldn't believe the magazine headlines at the grocery store checkout - it's instead examining our (or at least, Western culture's) obsession with celebrity. And it's slim pickings, and oft repetitive.
So if the title of this book (and the blurb, which is from the stellar first chunk), is what drew you in, only read part one. You do not miss absolutely anything from not reading the last two. Except some blather about an author who is a professor who wishes he was a rock star and how impossible it is for you to be one too.
First off - the title is misleading. To a point. The first chapter is exactly what I expected/wanted: documented and scientifically performed research that underlines why fad diets, lifestyles and other regimes most often promoted by celebrities are bullshit. It was glorious. I devoured it.
Then come parts one and two. Here we lose a lot of science - while studies are cited, they are admittedly (by the author) not the most methodological. And even more annoyingly, the author admits (in a roundabout way), that some of this is stemming from his own failed shot at celebrity. These parts aren't telling us why we shouldn't believe the magazine headlines at the grocery store checkout - it's instead examining our (or at least, Western culture's) obsession with celebrity. And it's slim pickings, and oft repetitive.
So if the title of this book (and the blurb, which is from the stellar first chunk), is what drew you in, only read part one. You do not miss absolutely anything from not reading the last two. Except some blather about an author who is a professor who wishes he was a rock star and how impossible it is for you to be one too.