Netflix’s new series Apple Cider Vinegar tells the shocking story of a woman named Belle Gibson, who pretends to have cancer and then “cures” it with a healthy lifestyle. But it also draws attention to largely unproven methods of cancer treatment, like black salve.

A new Netflix series dramatises the real-life story of Belle Gibson, the Australian wellness influencer who built an empire off the back of a non-existent brain tumour. Helen Coffey sorts reality from