Objective:Health: Celebrity Health Advice - Who's Allowed to Say What?
March 17, 202129m 30s
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Show Notes
There's a certain level of satisfaction we tend to get from seeing celebrities get taken down a peg. Recently, Gwyneth Paltrow was scolded by the NHS for giving advice they didn't like about treating long Covid. Fair enough - Gwyneth can talk about how she's dealing with long Covid and the NHS can tell everyone her advice is bunk. Freedom of speech, and all that. But the director of the NHS, Prof Stephen Powis in a statement not-so-sublty called on social media to censor celebrities from...