Health App Developer Who Faked Her Own Cancer Fined $320,000 Over Hoax

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[QUOTE]After Belle Gibson was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2013 she went on to cure herself, and released a popular smartphone app focused on healthy eating. Gibson even donated a small fortune to charity with the proceeds. At least that was her story. Both Gibson’s cancer and her “cure” were lies. And now a court has ordered her to pay a hefty fine.

Gibson, a 25-year-old Australian woman, built a health and wellness empire by not only pretending to have brain cancer, but then claiming to have cured her cancer with what she claimed were all-natural remedies. Gibson said that much of the proceeds from her cookbook and app, The Whole Pantry, would go to various charities. But that didn’t happen.
“No. None of it’s true,” Gibson finally confessed in April 2015 after questions were raised about her story. “I don’t want forgiveness. I just think [speaking out] was the responsible thing to do.”

Before she shut down her Facebook and Instagram accounts, Gibson had amassed quite a following, and kept everyone up to date on how she was “curing” her cancer. How did she cure it? By cutting out gluten, dairy, and coffee, among other things.

Gibson made over $420,000 ($322,00o US) during the course of her elaborate hoax. She was found guilty back in April but the fine of $410,000 ($320,00o US) was just issued today. The court found that Gibson made just over $10,000 in donations to charities during her venture, far short of what she claimed.
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What a cunt.

[Laika]

scumbag

[sir whoopsalot]

From a different source:
[quote]Above anything, I would like people to say, 'Okay, she's human.'"[/quote]

I'm pretty sure you can weaponize all the bile people wanna throw at her. 'Disgusting' feels way too nice.

[ScottyWired]

Forget the ice epidemic, natural healing is the massive crisis in Australia right now. No Jab No Pay was good but the government really needs to clamp down on people peddling bullshit that they say can completely replace actual medicine

[Resto]

What a horrible person. What kind of sewer did she crawl out of with the idea of making money by ripping off people by selling off a fake cure for a terrible disease?

Definitely deserves any backlash she's getting.

[jiggu]

I'm surprised that there isn't a prison sentence for this. When you scam people into alternative medicines you put them on the path to death. There should be a lot more responsibility involved if you do this.
I've never heard of her before so maybe she didn't advocate skipping medicines for avocados but the article made it sound like it.

[Mitsuma]

[QUOTE]$150,000 for failing to donate 100 percent of one week’s app sales to the family of Joshua Schwarz, a boy who had an inoperable brain tumor[/QUOTE]

Probably the worst part. One thing to profit of your fake bullshit but basically scamming a boy who had the actual disease is just evil.

Well, selling fake cures is not far of really.

[Ajaxial]

[QUOTE=jiggu;52725711]I'm surprised that there isn't a prison sentence for this. When you scam people into alternative medicines you put them on the path to death. There should be a lot more responsibility involved if you do this.
I've never heard of her before so maybe she didn't advocate skipping medicines for avocados but the article made it sound like it.[/QUOTE]

Would that in some way, if said person had passed away due to her steering them or potentially steering them away from actual cures or medicine constitute as manslaughter? Is there a term for potentially causing Manslaughter, or at-least leading people down a path that would cause them to pass but didn't?

Regardless, she's gotten off lightly so far in my eyes. I hope she gets dragged down. Vile.