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jony ive aces: Jun 14, 2012; designer of the lomarf car; Buglord

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/friends-and-doctors-raise-doubts-over-healing-belle-cancer-claims-20150310-1401rr.html

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Doubt has been cast over Melbourne social media entrepreneur Belle Gibson's "inspirational" story of cancer survival, as close friends and doctors question her illness and her publisher admits never checking the story.

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"I asked her when she got her diagnosis, she said she didn't know. I asked her who gave her the diagnosis, she said Dr Phil. I asked if Dr Phil had a last name she didn't know, he disappeared. I asked her where she saw Dr Phil, she said he came and picked [her] up from [her] house."

yeah okay that's interesting but it's not about compu-

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She launched The Whole Pantry app after gaining a social media following for posting about using nutrition to fight cancer. It has been downloaded 300,000 times and has been heavily promoted by Apple as a centrepiece app on the new Apple Watch.

Ms Gibson released a cook book based on the app last year. She wrote that she had been "stable for two years now with no growth of the cancer". But Ms Gibson told media outlets last year the cancer had reached her liver and kidneys. Three months earlier she posted on The Whole Pantry's Facebook page that her cancer had spread to her blood, spleen, brain and uterus.

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Ms Gibson, who calls herself 'Healing Belle', has recently partnered with Apple to develop her recipe app for the Apple Watch. Apple had been promoting the app and last week said an "exciting" announcement about Ms Gibson would be made on Monday.

Apple has declined to say whether it stands by Ms Gibson in light of the latest revelations of her company's questionable fundraising activities and doubt over the veracity of her health claims.

good to see tim following in stebe's dead cancerous footsteps ( :rip:

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Shaggar: Apr 26, 2006

anything that kills more apple users is fine by me

# ? Mar 11, 2015 04:07

bobbilljim: May 29, 2013; this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me

sleepy? there's an app for that

# ? Mar 11, 2015 04:07

jony ive aces: Jun 14, 2012; designer of the lomarf car; Buglord

Shaggar posted:

anything that kills more apple users is fine by me

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Smythe: Oct 12, 2003

Shaggar posted:

anything that kills more apple users is fine by me

# ? Mar 11, 2015 04:46

Asymmetric POSTer: Aug 17, 2005

Shaggar posted:

anything that kills more apple users is fine by me

i think your crossing a line here buddy

# ? Mar 11, 2015 05:39

pram: Jun 10, 2001

who is Belle Gibson

# ? Mar 11, 2015 05:42

pram: Jun 10, 2001

not notable enough for a wikipedia entry. gas

# ? Mar 11, 2015 05:42

fart simpson: Jul 2, 2005; DEATH TO AMERICA

Shaggar posted:

anything that kills more apple users is fine by me

# ? Mar 11, 2015 05:43

pram: Jun 10, 2001

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Her stories of suffering seizures, hospital admissions and multiple cancers are disappearing from her Facebook and Instagram pages.

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Former friends of Ms Gibson have told the Australian they doubted her claims as far back as 2009 when, aged 17, she first claimed to have had multiple heart operations, and chemotherapy and radiotherapy for a brain tumour.

lol

# ? Mar 11, 2015 05:48