Beau Donelly & Nick Toscano’s ‘The Woman Who Fooled the World: Belle Gibson’s Cancer Con’

‘Rather than simply recounting Gibson’s story, Donelly and Toscano contextualise her meteoric rise to fame by situating it at the nexus of several forces—a burgeoning, whitewashed wellness industry that eschews science in favour of aesthetics, a social media-driven culture where fake news proliferates, and the hopelessness felt by cancer patients’...