Belle Gibson misled public with cancer claims, judge says
The federal court has found the disgraced wellness blogger Belle Gibson contravened consumer law by building a wellness empire off the back of claims she cured her terminal brain cancer and other cancers through diet and alternative treatments.
Her penalty will be handed down at a date yet to be determined. Consumer affairs has been given a week to come back to the court outlining the appropriate level of costs....
Gibson’s product, The Whole Pantry, included a website, mobile phone app and recipe book of the same name. Her story of shunning conventional medicine and curing herself with food began to fall apart in 2015 when it was revealed she never made thousands of dollars in charity donations she promised off the back of money raised through her success.
She then said she had been diagnosed by a German magnetic therapist with cancers she claimed to have in her blood, spleen, uterus and liver and brain, but in an interview with Women’s Weekly, admitted: “None of it’s true.”...
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/belle-gibson-misled-public-with-cancer-claims-judge-says/ar-AAomyLn?li=BBoPRmx
(Is it too mean of me to say that she obviously couldn't have had a brain tumour, as she never had a brain!)
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