Five Celebrities You Didn't Know Were Woo-tastic

Some woo-tastic celebrities are well-known and obvious. You got Jenny McCarthy, Dr. Oz, etc. But some, you might have never guessed. Here are five celebrities you might not have known are swimming deep in the sea of homeopathy and conspiracy theories in the S.S. Woke.

*Note, this article does not contain source links, as it’s intended to be a tad more on the casual reading side. If, however, you doubt any of these statements, I am more than happy to provide a source.

♥ Maranda

1.    Billy Corgan – Singer of The Smashing Pumpkins

The Smashing Pumpkins were a popular alternative rock band in the 90s, probably most well-known for their songs ‘Cherub Rock’ and ‘Bullet With Butterfly Wings.’ Giant baby-man Lead singer, Billy Corgan, has recently made a point to remind everyone that, hey, even though nobody listens to The Smashing Pumpkins anymore, he can still spew terrible garbage out of his mouth.

In one of his many Alex Jones interviews, (Yeah, he’s had many. I feel like that statement alone could be the only thing I say here and sum it all up) Billy Corgan spent an hour rambling about a ton of out-there stuff after being introduced by Alex as “A super smart guy.” This interview included Billy comparing social justice warriors to Maoist cult members and being totally cool with KKK marches because free speech. Some truly precious quotes from this one interview include….

“5-35% of the population is either asleep, or doesn’t wanna be woken up.”
What? Where does this statistic come from? Asleep OR doesn’t wanna be woken up? How can you not want to be woken up if you’re not asleep? “Asleep”, in this context, means the opposite of being awake/woke. Awake/woke being someone who is supposedly super smart

“It’s hard not to stare at somebody when they’re in the zeitgeist.”
Here, someone being in the zeitgeist means that they’re part of the grand media/government conspiracy to keep the world “asleep”. Billy finds his breath taken away by the mere sight of someone who impedes on society with dat zeitgeist.

“[Alex Jones] and I have spent 57,000 hours examining certain parts of the entertainment or the governmental structure. We can see things breaking long before anybody else can.”
Amazing. Truly, you guys are like Nostradamus Junior 1 and 2. American civilization would be lost without your predictions. But, 57,000 hours? That’s 6.5 YEARS. Tell me, Billy Man-Baby, how did you and Alex accomplish this? Is this 6.5 years each or split between the two of you? Was it 6.5 non-stop years or broken up? Did you take breaks to sleep? I guess not since you guys are so “awake.”

Billy also writes a blog, where he can be quoted saying he believes the swine flu was a man-made virus, and to bring up his anti-vaccine views:

“I have read reports from people who say (as doctors) that there is evidence to suggest this virus was created by man; to call it Swine Flu is then a misnomer, as it really is Swine Flu plus some other stuff stitched together . . . I for one will not be taking the vaccine. I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us thru fear . . . That is what holistic life is about: a willingness to look at all the facts or opinions.”

Nobody puts Billy in the corner. No vaccine, no government, or media will ever get him down. He knows the truth. He is truly woke.

2.     Jessica Alba

You may remember Jessica Alba from movies such as ‘Sin City’, ‘Honey’, ‘The Love Guru’ (I hope not), and Good Luck Chuck. In which she played “You know! That chick! Kinda young, brown hair, B-list actress! Name starts with a J?”

"uhhh..."

However, as of late, Jessica Alba has changed her focus from acting to create ‘The Honest Company’, a company that makes organic formula, diapers, wipes, cleaning products, vitamins, and sunscreen that doesn’t actually offer and sun protection.

So what’s supposedly so “Honest” about The Honest Company?

To be honest (see what I did there?), I can get behind a lot of the The Honest Company's message. I can get behind green, sustainable, attractive looking baby products. Let's face it, a lot of diapers are hideous or tacky. Traditional, disposable diapers are terrible for the environment. If this alone was The Honest Company's goal and message, I'd be a customer.

However, Jessica Alba and her company have made a common mistake: They have bought and sold into the idea that "organic" goes hand in hand with green, sustainable products. As I have briefly discussed before, this just isn't the case. Infact, organic farming is worse for the environment than traditional agricultural methods. This pairing of organic with environmental stability is common, and helps perpetuate the myth that they go hand-in-hand, which clearly isn’t the case.

Another woo-ey factor of The Honest Company’s practices are their goal to “reduce toxics [SIC] in all products and packaging” which encourages people to believe that, one, other formulas and diapers are “toxic”, and like the organic thing, feeds into chemophobia. As is the case in most products that tout their lack of toxins, The Honest Company fails to let us know which toxins are not included in the product, what exactly those toxins are and do, and why the dose has no effect on the toxicity


3.    Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney was the founding member and lead singer of Wings, as well as a successful solo artist. He was also a founding member of a pretty unknown, indie rock band known as The Beatles. I doubt you’ve heard of them.

"He loves woo yeah, yeah, yeah!" <- literally the worst joke I could think of.

When not busy being one of the most influential people in music of all-time, McCartney is quite the activist, including for animal rights and environmental sustainability, and while most of his activism is noble and solid, some is not so much.

In 1999, Paul spent £3,000,000 (approx. $3,330,000 USD in 1999) to ensure that Linda McCartney Foods (His company that sells a large variety of vegetarian products, named after his late wife and animal activist Linda McCartney) was kept free of GMOs after finding that some of the products had been “contaminated” with less than 0.5% of GMO soy. What did they do after this “contamination?” Replaced the soy with organic wheat.

Oh, and closed and steam cleaned the entire factory to ensure it was “a GMO-freezone”

I don't wanna hate on or put down Linda McCartney Foods, much like The Honest Company, they truly seem charming and like their heart is in the right place. But, again, we're not talking about heart, feelings, or intentions. We're talking about facts, and the fact is that GMOs are perfectly safe. And making the point to market the food as safer, of higher quality, and healthier, simply because it is organic, free of artificial colors, artificial flavors, and preservatives is simply promoting psuedo-science.

And though I cannot verify its accuracy, as I cannot find its origin, Paul McCartney is quoted on several homeopathic websites as having said “I can't manage without homeopathy. In fact, I never go anywhere without homeopathic remedies. I often make use of them.” (If anyone can find the origin of this quote, or even somewhere proving he never said it, I'd very much appreciate it)

4.    Samuel L. Jackson

(Thanks to Lori from PVPG for this suggestion!)

Ahh another beloved celebrity for me to shut down. I bet you didn’t guess Samuel L. Jackson of Pulp Fiction, Django Unchained, The Avengers, Jurassic Park, Snakes on a Plane, The Incredibles, Coach Carter, Die Hard with a Vengeance, Star Wars: Episode III, and Black Snake Moan would be into woo.

To be honest, I spent a long time figuring out how I could incorporate this image here.

I don’t like writing this (or the previous or next entry) because I truly do like SLJ. I find him to be a great actor, even in terrible movies, and he seems to be one of the least awful people in Hollywood.

But nobody said this job would be easy, and dammit I must do it.

So what is Samuel’s sin of woo? Cupping.

Cupping, while definitely not one of the more common forms of woo, is the act of suctioning cups to a “patient’s” skin (usually back) to “heal or detox” them. SLJ posted a picture back in April of him getting cupping done, specifically, wet cupping, where the skin is punctured with a needle before the cup is suctioned on. This not only forces your skin up into this glorified diva cup, but also draws your blood out.

Cupping, like a lot of woo, is a form of old-school medicine. There is evidence that the Egyptians, the Greeks, and even Hippocrates used cupping as a medical treatment, and it is still practiced in “traditional Chinese medicine” today.  Again, while not common, this is a typical woo of the “people used to do it all the time so it must be awesome” variety.

"Getting a hole drilled into your skull for seizures, mental disorders, and head injuries? Well, I mean, as long as people in medicine used to do it and don't anymore, sign me up!"

In all reality, I don’t take a huge issue with SLJ going out and getting his back stabbed and sucked, whatever floats your goat, dude. I do, however, take a huge issue with the promotion of it. While he did not explicitly go into much detail of the procedure, he posted it, picture and name, on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, thus inviting potentially millions of people into the land that Woo built. As you're probably noticing, this is a common pattern here.

5.    Jim Carrey

I didn’t want to do this. Of this entire list, this is the one I wanted to write the least.

There are some famous people who are almost universally well-liked. John Stamos, Ellen DeGeneres, the Lucky Charms guy, and Jim Carrey.

Jim Carrey has starred in several hit movies, mostly comedies, such as The Mask, Bruce Almighty, Dumb and Dumber, Ace Venture, The Grinch, Liar Liar, Yes Man, Me Myself and Irene, and several more. I Love You Phillip Morris, The Truman Show, and Fun with Dick and Jane are admittedly three of my favorite movies.

So it is with a particularly high level of sadness to inform you that Jim Carrey is a proponent of anti-vaccine woo-y garbage.

It’s easy and logical to assume that Jim Carrey became a loud, anti-vaxxer during his relationship with Hollywood’s most famous woo-pusher: Jenny McCarthy. But unfortunately, once their relationship ended, the woo train kept on chugging along.

Unfortunately, Jim here can’t just keep it to himself. Or even roll like SLJ and just say “Hey, I don’t vaccinate.” and leave it at that (which is bad enough.) Oh no, he has to go COMPLETELY off the wall and get LOUD with it.  If he weren’t a celebrity, I would almost feel like this was a cry for help, like an 8-year-old burning ants with a magnifying glass.

Some examples of this include….

Oh… Oh boy… Maybe if I read these with one eyebrow raised, and an Ace Ventura voice, it won’t be so bad. No? Still terrible… Okay..

\Well, Jim, I’m not here to debunk, just discuss. But, in case anyone reading is wondering? The poison’s in the dose.  And the dose of mercury, aluminum, and formaldehyde in vaccines is not deadly or harmful to humans, including infants. 

You get mercury in a lot of ways other than vaccines, including breast milk and seafood. You get formaldehyde in a lot of ways like mouth wash, cough drops, and pears. And, finally, you get aluminum in a lot of ways. In fact, according to the CDC, the average person takes in an estimated 30-50 mg of aluminum every day, mainly from foods, drinking water, and medicines. Even so, not all vaccines contain aluminum, and the ones that do only contain about 1% of the average amount the average person takes in every day. Not 1% of a -deadly- amount, 1% of an *average* amount.

Oh, and as far as whining about government mandated vaccines? Your right to throw your fists around ends at my face, and when you don’t vaccinate yourself or your children, you put my face, my child’s face, immunocompromised faces, elderly faces, babies too young to be vaccinated faces, and pregnant faces at risk of disease and illness. And if you’re okay with giving babies’ diseases, then I think your problem lies less with vaccines and lies more with you being a terrible person.

And thus, we conclude our list. It may have broken your heart, maybe you already knew all of these celebrities were into woo. Maybe, like me, you realized that finding celebrities who are actually outspoken advocates for science, is more difficult to find than celebrities who sing the praises of homeopathy.  But that, is for another post.


Hugs, kisses, and Merck checks! ♥