Contains strong language.

Marianna in Conspiracyland, Marianna in Conspiracyland 2, 1. The Dove and the Pigeon

Marianna in Conspiracyland

Marianna in Conspiracyland 2

1. The Dove and the Pigeon

June 30, 2025

33 minutes

Available for over a year

What happened to Paloma? Aged 22, Paloma Shemirani has her whole life ahead of her. She’s recently graduated, moved into a flat and found a job. But just days before Christmas in 2023 she receives bad news, she has cancer - an aggressive but treatable form of Lymphoma. Despite a good prognosis, Paloma decides - at least initially - to reject chemotherapy. The BBC’s social media investigations correspondent Marianna Spring investigates what happened and what this tells us about the mainstreaming of anti-medicine ideas.

Host: Marianna Spring

Producer: Anna Harris

Story Editor: Matt Willis

Sound Designer: Tony Churnside

Editor: Sam Bonham

Commissioning producer: Nathan Jones

Commissioning editor: Rhian Roberts

This was a BBC collaboration with Panorama.