Christopher Glasl’s withdrawn memoir of his time in Special Operations Group raises questions about publisher fact checking. How do they do it? And can it be improved?
Wellness ‘gurus’ like Belle Gibson (not pictured here) have changed the way we think about our own health.
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We must ask ourselves how healthy it is to publicly shame a vulnerable person and what the right balance is between culpability and a sense of care and generosity to those who have done the wrong thing.
Would it ever be responsible to legitimise the story that someone “healed themselves” of cancer through diet?
Jan Hallbæck
Social media entrepreneur Belle Gibson is not the first to be accused of fabricating a personal recovery story for public consumption. So what responsibility do publishers have in such cases?