Three women contract HIV from dirty “vampire facials” at unlicensed spa
arstechnica.com
Five patients with links to the spa had viral genetic sequences that closely matched.

I never went as far as to defend Gwyneth Paltrow, but after her Hot Ones appearance I created a post (which I will link in the comments) where I suggested that she’s done no more harm than male grifters and that the dislike of her as a person was primarily due to misogyny. That’s before I learned about her promotion of these unproven “vampire facials”. Now an unlicensed clinic performing this procedure has given at least three women HIV. You guys were right and I was wrong.

  • sgibson5150OP
    614·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • xor@infosec.pub
      2·
      2 months ago

      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…

      • sgibson5150OP
        1·
        2 months ago

        I hear your objection to making this a TIL. Do you have a suggestion as to a better community to host this?

        • xor@infosec.pub
          2·
          2 months ago

          not the onion? there’s a lot of “weird news” and anti capitalist stuff it would fit in…

    • psud@aussie.zone
      412·
      2 months ago

      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.