Watching Apple Cider Vinegar filled me with rage and clarity: The answer to Belle Gibson's lies is science

It's hard not to watch Apple Cider Vinegar without experiencing a slow boiling rage. The level of public loathing for Gibson has become so high and feverish that one 29-year-old woman who has terminal stage four bowel cancer — Kellie Finlayson, a mother and the wife of a Port Adelaide AFL player — says that she has been compared to Gibson "countless times, several times a week", which is "a big punch to the face". "Having gone through the things that she described … or pretended to have gone through and the way she manipulated people around her to empathise and to give her so much … it makes me physically ill." The answer is to elevate science I also can't help but feel concerned about one aspect of having cancer that seems to have been lost in all of the indignation about Gibson's pathological lies: it can be hellish traversing the medical system sometimes. What it's like to play Belle Gibson, the wellness influencer who lied about her cancer Photo shows Kaitlyn Dever as Belle Gibson in Apple Cider Vinegar, smiling on a stage, about to give a speech. The story of Belle Gibson is an important one, and it should be widely known for several reasons: so that we might avoid snake oil, challenge misinformation, question bogus medical claims, recognise what ignoring medical science might mean, and — allow me this — also witness the importance of good, properly funded investigative journalism.