To the Editor:

Re “Who’s Afraid of Gwyneth Paltrow?” (Op-Ed, Feb. 4):

No one is afraid of Ms. Paltrow and her company, Goop. What people fear is the very real, very dangerous reality that we live in: a post-Enlightenment culture that eschews facts in favor of subjective narrative.

Anti-vax is real. Cancer patients dying because of alternative medicine is real. Global warming denialism is real.

If Elisa Albert and Jennifer Block want Ms. Paltrow’s imaginative treatments and practices to be viewed as seriously as science-based medicine, then they can subject those practices to rigorous, public scientific inquiry. No one is stopping them.

And a deserved “patriarchal” beat-down? Many of the finest and most scathing critiques of these anti-science techniques come from very qualified women whose feminist credentials and real-life clinical experience are beyond reproach.