Maxime Meiland was tackled hard last night in Op1 because she would tell ‘health fables’ to enrich herself. Host Erik Dijkstra even calls it ‘quackery’.
The celebrities really don’t care: give them some money and they’ll praise another lemon peel sandwich as if they’ve never eaten anything better. Of course they should do it, but it’s a different story if they try to cheat their sometimes still vulnerable followers with false health myths.
Total bullsh*t
Maxime Meiland is also guilty of it. She recently started in her Instagramstories to promote some kind of miracle tea. Drink a few cups and before you know it you’ve lost eight centimeters, the reality star exclaimed. For the majority of people, she loses credibility with this, another part desperately starts to buy that tea.
Science journalist Adriaan ter Braack sat at the table yesterday On 1 to talk about this kind of marketing nonsense and he condemns this pickpocketing by Maxime. “Well, look, this is all total bullsh*t. First, no tea helps with fat burning. There is no study on it.”
‘People believe this’
Maxime can never claim such a thing, thinks Adriaan. “So they claim it is, that it has been scientifically proven, but you can just say that. You can also say: ‘This works, it’s been scientifically proven’, and people will believe it, but it’s total bullsh*t.”
A gentleman at the table: “Don’t you incredibly underestimate my mental abilities, that I can’t judge for myself that this is bullsh*t?”
Adrian: “Well, you. A lot of people garden here. That’s why I think they hired her. She has a lot of followers and a lot of people think: I also want to lose weight!”
Tsunami of nonsense
Fortunately, Maxime’s tea is not dangerous in any case, says Adriaan. “This example in itself is not even that harmful, because it is a waste tea, but it is very exemplary, because you see a lot of companies that use celebrities to sell all kinds of bullshit.”
He continues: “You can say it can be done, but on Instagram you are inundated with a tsunami of nonsense, so you no longer know what is and what is not. That also has consequences. You have the cases themselves, but also the general picture that people no longer know what is and what is not correct.”
Quackery
Host Erik Dijkstra closes the item by portraying Maxime as a quack. “Adriaan, you are on a crusade against this kind of quackery. That’s what we can call it. I think it’s important that you do that.”
It is of course not the first time that a celebrity has been discredited because of this kind of grabbing. Lieke van Lexmond has been under fire several times for giving medical advice and Giel Beelen had to stop selling his life-threatening Shambala drops after the commotion.