Netflix likes to brand itself as a less evil alternative to Hollywood, which is probably true -- although that's less to do with Netflix and more to do with Hollywood's proclivity for evil. That said, it has become abundantly clear that the streaming giant isn't living an entirely blameless life itself. For example ...

4 They Love Promoting Pseudoscience

In 2018, Netflix inked a deal with New Age bullshit peddler Gwenyth Paltrow to take her lifestyle website Goop and turn it into a show that aims to, quote, "guide the deeply curious in an exploration of boundary-pushing wellness topics." We don't know exactly what she means by "boundary-pushing," although we suspect it's code for "none of this is peer-reviewed."

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Netflix has also been criticized for hosting What The Health. This vegan documentary alleges (among other things) that eating one egg is the equivalent of smoking five cigarettes, drinking milk causes cancer, fish are loaded with toxins, and prominent health organizations like the American Diabetes Association and the American Heart Association are covering up these inconvenient truths on behalf of Big Animal Products. (We were going to say "Big Meat," but that's the name of our stripping troupe.)

There's also Root Cause, a documentary about how root canals supposedly cause cancer -- a claim which is so extremely not true that anyone spouting this nonsense should automatically be suspected of Cavity Creeping. The movie caused such a panic among paranoid tooth-owners that the American Dental Association lobbied Netflix to take it down, which they eventually did.

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Then there was Heal, a two-hour opus "investigating" the idea that it's possible to cure any illness, including cancer, with positive thinking. One of the subjects is a woman whose bowel and liver cancer disappeared after she underwent therapy to deal with being bullied in kindergarten ... after a course of chemotherapy and radiography.