Reddit User Faked Grandmas Cancer for Internet Points Fact Checked
“r/teenagers 34 MaxBC_3 OP • 6y ago u/XellianTheDong avatar XellianTheDong • 6y ago "Oh boy, time to lie about my grandma having cancer for some sweet internet points"”
Summary
The quoted line appears verbatim in the r/teenagers thread, showing the user’s own admission of planning to fabricate a story about a grandmother’s cancer for online attention. There is no verification that such a lie was actually posted; the evidence confirms only that the comment exists.
Sources 60 searched
- The Challenges of Cancer Misinformation on Social Media - NCI
Indeed, a recent study found that of the most popular articles posted on social media in 2018 and 2019 on the four most common cancers, one in every three contained false, inaccurate, or misleading information.
- Cancer Misinformation and Harmful Information on Facebook ...
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- Online Medical Misinformation in Cancer: Distinguishing Fact ...
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- Reddit exposes person who said he had cancer but didn't.
When another redditor tried to get sympathy money from nortoriously generous redditors, they exposed him as a fraud instead.
- A breast cancer diagnosis sent her to Reddit. Here's what she found.
Any claims you see on these platforms − Reddit or TikTok or others − should be traced back to their original source. "If a product or protocol is being sold alongside the health claim, treat that as a significant red flag," Verdin adds.
- 55 Patients Whose Sick Act Fell Apart The Second The Doctor Walked In
Okay, I think - perhaps she has a fast growing malignancy that has grown into her spinal cord, and maybe there's a fistula due to that, and she had alopecia areata totalis as a result. As an intern, it was my job to look through all of the outside records, of which there was a good amount - think War and Peace. Edit: I wondered if she had cancer that was growing into her spinal cord and cutting off the signals to her legs.
- r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix on Reddit: My grandmother made cancer disappear.
This study was repeated four separate times by four different scientists with the sole purpose of debunking it. EVERY STUDY CONFIRMED THE RESULTS!!! It's important to note that these were your average people. Not anyone who claimed to have esoteric/psychic abilities. I think your grandmother literally made the cancer disappear!!
- r/breastcancer on Reddit: Anyone see the TikTok from the woman who won’t do traditional treatment for breast cancer?
Yeah there’s a good chance she doesn’t even have cancer, honestly. Then she can claim she’s miraculously cured.
- r/breastcancer on Reddit: Dealing with idiots who tell you that you caused the cancer (and therefore deserve it)
Not drinking some form of "miracle water" will encourage the cancer to recur and/or spread. This water is either extra-oxygenated, or extra alkaline, or somehow able to alkalize blood pH. I've done my own research and reading on the above and have found more general articles (like the ones on Healthline) that dispute these 3 points, but it would be hugely helpful (especially when doubts start creeping in) if anyone has anything more solid - like peer reviewed clinical trial research study reports.
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