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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Stanley Murphy-Johns

Paloma Shemirani’s brother thinks more will die in ‘wild west’ of disinformation

The brother of a woman who died after being “adversely influenced” to refuse cancer treatment says there are “no protections” for people like his sister.

Cambridge graduate Paloma Shemirani, 23, died in July last year after declining treatment for non-Hodgkin lymphoma on the advice of her conspiracy theorist parents.

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