It's not our fault, we just report it

Belle Gibson promoted foods as a way to cure cancer. Anti-GMO, anti-gluten, organic, low dairy, etc. What is interesting is not that she lied about having cancer and conventional treatment failing her. It's interesting how little the media criticizes itself.

Anti-GMOs, organic, and gluten-free are buzzwords that anyone with some science acumen know marks pseudoscience in health and diet. GMOs are just as healthy as organic, there's no difficulty with gluten (you know, the protein that makes bread soft rather than cardboard), and abosolutely no evidence that that avoiding particular foods can cure cancer.

She lied, but even if she hadn't lied and her cancer went into remission the message should have been the same; there is no evidence to suggest that changing your diet cures cancer.

She may have lied. But individual journalists gave her a platform without doing their research into the basic science of nutrition and cancer. If you don't know a subject, don't write about it.

This is not a failure to fact check a story. It's a failure to fact check basic science. The initial plausibility of this claim should have been low to begin with.