11 Times "Health Guru" Celebrities Were Hilariously Wrong About Science
4. Carole Caplin And The Imaginary Science
Carole Caplin, lifestyle guru, former popstar and one-time fitness and style advisor to Tony Blair when he was Prime Minister, took a break from untucking Blair's shirt and rumpling his hair to have a stab at a bit of medical advice.
Caplin reckons she knows how to prevent that nightmarish fear of every woman: Breast cancer. She claims that you can avoid this terrible fate is by "keeping the lymph system clear and unclogged".
Unfortunately, Caplin, along with the rest of the scientific community, is unclear as to how exactly one "unclogs" the lymphatic system. According to Prof. Michael Baum Professor of Surgery at UCL, keeping the lymph system ‘clear and unclogged’ has literally no biological meaning whatsoever.
Even if it were possible to clog and then unclog the lymphatic system, how this might prevent breast cancer is similarly unclear, almost as though it is totally made up.