they did a piece on that guy who does infomercials about drug companines that don't want you to find out that there are lots of cures using natural stuff that is of course in his $30. book - Trudeau
Turns out he's been in jail twice for scamming, using other methods, and that his quackery book is making him the most money so far! - Thats because its free speech etc - but slowly the word is getting out how he is misrepresenting & even lying, misquoting..... :-O - nerve eh? People are dying, and he's been banned from doing infomercials.
They then expanded with how people are gullible - wishing to believe what they want - it was great.
I wanted to post the website link, but its so busy now, I'll try later.
There were so many good parallels, descriptions of truths - a real conversation starter if you know what I mean. wink wink
any one else see it?
John Stossels might be ready for the Blood Tort & the Quotes fiasco!!
wp
20/20 tonight - talk about an icebreaker
by Will Power 6 Replies latest jw friends
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John Stossels might be ready for the Blood Tort & the Quotes fiasco!!
Well then, get on it WP. I already sent out my mails.
More surely cannot hurt.
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sKally
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IronClaw
John Stossels might be ready for the Blood Tort & the Quotes fiasco!!
I would love to see national news coverage of these topics. Then watch the WT$ squirm.
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Leolaia
Yeah, I've been disgusted about that Kevin Trudeau guy for some time. Making money on the backs of the sick and dying...
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bikerchic
Silly me! I ordered his book in July '05 got it mid August. A letter came with it saying that my credit card would automaticly be charged $72.40 for his dumb news letter unless I opted out within 15 days. I imediately called the number and opted out. October's bank statement showed a charge of $72.40 from his dumb news letter of which I NEVER RECIEVED! It took me from then until January 4th this year to get my refund and I hounded them almost every day! Squeeky wheel I am!
Oh and his book, if you left out the phrase "natural cures they don't want you to know about" in every other sentence his 571 page book would be about 20 pages of actual
uslessinformation, but then I really haven't read it, every time I look at it I get MAD! (at myself for being so gullable). -
ringo5
Yeah, hopefully it will be a while before we see that guy's face again. Jon Stewart did a bit on him http://www.thebscorner.com/archives/JSonCrap_wmv.htm
And here's another charlatan Don Lapre You might remember "just one tiny little ad!" -
Will Power
I'm going to send the JWD Quotes link along with some thanks & praise for "telling it like it is"
Maybe he'll GIVE US A BREAK! ha
here is the link to the story about twisted truth
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Entertainment/story?id=1528377
some highlights.
"Even though truth has become this kind of flexible construct that people are, you know, feel free to handle and manage in whatever way they will, the truth is still important. And when people are misrepresenting factual matters, I think that's troubling," he said.
The Bigger the Lie, the Easier to Swallow?
Hitler believed in telling enormous lies because, as he put it, "The great mass of people will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one."
"I think there's a real sense that reality and truthfulness is a kind of self-invented phenomenon. That it's something that you can manufacture or construct in all these different ways. And so it's given people a sense that the truth is permeable or creatable or constructable, and that, I think, is new," Winn said.
One result is that people are often simultaneously cynical and gullible about what they believe. Some cynics who believed the government had covered up information about a flying saucer crashing in Roswell, N.M., in the late 1940s fell for one of the most publicized hoaxes of the 1990s — a television special claiming to show 50-year-old secret footage of an autopsy performed on an alien being in Roswell.
..... some of the subtle ingredients of what makes us vulnerable to such a hoax: the alien reflects us.
And there are moments when we want so desperately to believe that we always will be susceptible.
In a time when there is so much embellishment and re-invention, accomplished with such ease, the stakes go well beyond money and power and pretense.
Winn sums it up well. "[If] people really become so cynical that everyone is lying, that everybody in government is lying, that everyone in business is secretly you know, an Enron executive who's just waiting to bilk investors or, or the public in some way, then yeah, I mean, we'd lose the kind of trust that makes a society run and that, that we need in order to operate. If the public detaches itself completely from trust not only in officials, but in one another, then, you know, that's really alarming. It's a corrosive trend in society."
You might remember "just one tiny little ad!"