{"id":19620,"date":"2017-11-21T14:43:51","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T19:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=19620"},"modified":"2017-11-21T14:43:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T19:43:51","slug":"the-whole-pantry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/21\/the-whole-pantry\/","title":{"rendered":"The Whole Pantry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2015\/04\/22\/developer-admits-faking-cancer\/\">Mitchel Broussard<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2015\/04\/22\/developer-admits-faking-cancer\/\"><p>After facing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2015\/03\/18\/the-whole-pantry-apple-watch-removed\/\">wave of controversy<\/a> in March over reports of false claims made towards her cancer diagnosis, Australian indie developer Belle Gibson this week spoke out, admitting that &ldquo;none of it&rsquo;s true&rdquo; in regards to her ever having cancer (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/lifestyle\/health\/belle-gibson-no-none-of-it-is-true\/story-fniym874-1227315232565\"><em>News.com.au<\/em><\/a>).<\/p><p>Last month, when $300,000 of her app sales failed to find its promised home at certain charities, the legitimacy of her cancer claims began to be questioned. Gibson is the founder of <em>The Whole Pantry<\/em>, a healthy lifestyle and diet app that focuses on naturally-occurring ingredients and solutions to complicated recipes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/apple-criticized-for-not-investigating-app-developer-wh-1820606152\">Matt Novak<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jgordonshare\/status\/932790805919608833\">John Gordon<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/apple-criticized-for-not-investigating-app-developer-wh-1820606152\"><p>When the Apple Watch launched in 2015, Belle Gibson was touted by Apple as a star. Not only had Gibson supposedly cured her own cancer through healthy eating, she now had an app for both the iPhone and Apple Watch that could help others do the same. But now that her own cancer and &ldquo;cure&rdquo; have been exposed as fake, people are asking what responsibility Apple had to the public.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>When the press started asking hard questions and raising doubts about her astonishing claims in April of 2015, Apple&rsquo;s internal emails about their star app developer show that the company was ready to stand by Gibson.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/1820621343\">MattCastaway<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/1820621343\"><p>This is the second-worst instance of Apple falling for &ldquo;natural cancer cure&rdquo; quackery.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitchel Broussard: After facing a wave of controversy in March over reports of false claims made towards her cancer diagnosis, Australian indie developer Belle Gibson this week spoke out, admitting that &ldquo;none of it&rsquo;s true&rdquo; in regards to her ever having cancer (via News.com.au).Last month, when $300,000 of her app sales failed to find its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[91,38,992,31,26,41],"class_list":["post-19620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-appstore","tag-apple","tag-apple-watch","tag-ios","tag-iosapp","tag-lawsuit"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19621,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19620\/revisions\/19621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}