Beware of fake cancer cures promoted by some crooks for fame and/or money

Last updated on 29th Sept. 2017

An Australian Wellness Blogger Has Been Fined $322,000 for Lying About Having Cancer, http://time.com/4960515/australia-belle-gibson-fined-lying-cancer/.

Very unfortunate! But the reality is that some people, including in India, make fake cure claims, including miraculous cure claims, simply for earning fame and/or money.

Such fakes cast doubt on the real miraculous cures or real alternative therapy cures.

Some extracts from wiki page on her, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_Gibson:

In early March 2015, after media reporting identified Gibson's apparently fraudulent claims of charity fundraising and donation-making, further media investigation soon revealed that Gibson had also apparently fabricated her stories of cancer, and lied about her age as well as other details of her personal life and history. Concerns were expressed that Gibson had led a profligate lifestyle, renting an upmarket town house, leasing a luxury car and office space, undergoing cosmetic dental procedures, purchasing designer clothes and holidaying internationally, on money claimed to have been raised or destined for charity.

The media were increasingly reporting specified fraudulent claims by Gibson and The Whole Pantry regarding charity fundraising and donation-making, and detailed the many inconsistencies in Gibson's claimed medical history. With a collapsing social media support base, in an April 2015 interview Gibson admitted that her claims of cancers had been fabricated, stating that "none of it's true".
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Ravi: I have been one of the care-givers (there were many others too) of a close relative of mine who suffered from the dreaded disease in early 1990s, at a relatively young age of around 40. It was one of the major events in my life which significantly contributed to me, in my early 30s then, turning rather heavily towards spiritual life and Bhakti (devotion).

She took chemo (and radiation too, if I recall correctly), and also changed her lifestyle, food habits, used alternative therapy like wheat grass etc. She was operated on and then treated, primarily by oncologists at Tata Memorial Hospital in Parel, Mumbai. I have very clear recollections of being at that hospital in the early 1990s when she got operated. I mean, it was a life-shaking event for me then.

She beat the disease and is living a full life now. Alternative therapies may have contributed to her recovery. But she also went by medical opinion and views (she herself is a medic).

I think it is horrible, really horrible, that somebody faked cancer and ***MISLED*** others about having been "cured" of it.

Very unfortunately, I have been told of some cases involving spiritual Gurus/masters where such deliberately created fake cancer and other disease cure stories have been spread for purposes of attracting devotees and money. Such fake spiritual Gurus/masters create doubt among people about genuine cancer and other disease cures by genuine spiritual Gurus/masters.
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[I thank wikipedia and have presumed that they will not have any objections to me sharing the above extract from their website on this post which is freely viewable by all, and does not have any financial profit motive whatsoever.]