Possible media exposure of "Natural Cures" book woo-ness?

[Leicontis]

I'm seeing ads saying that the news on WBZ Channel 4 Boston will be doing a story on their 11PM news tonight (03/31) about the books of Kevin Trudeau, a big peddler of woo-woo (Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You To Know About", etc.), with definite implications of exposing a scam. Sounds worth a watch, even if it will probably not go as far as it should.

[jimtron]

Swell. Here's their site: http://wbztv.com/

Hopefully it will be online as well.

[fuelair]

We will be hoping for a big boot next Trudeau's fundament - but at a minimum no big cop-out!!!

[skeptigirl]

Trudeau has been involved in one infomercial scam after another. And he doesn't always work alone either. A couple other people are involved in repeat infomercial scams with him.

Before the 'Cures' book there was some kind of calcium pills he was selling making more outrageous claims. Then Trudeau was convicted and the court ordered he not make any more false claims but he just made the next scam a little vaguer and no one cracked down on him for months and months. That was the 'Cures' book, which included a scam that even after you bought the book you needed to subscribe to the website because he claimed that he couldn't put stuff in the book or "they" would sue him.

Now he's got some other scam going with a new infomercial. This guy knows how to cheat people and I've no doubt he's a millionaire because of it.

He needs to be exposed.

[jimtron]

Link to the story:
http://wbztv.com/iteam/kevin.trudeau.books.2.689207.html

[Leicontis]

I was impressed with the story, which in no way minced words or held back. They listed Trudeau's various legal troubles, and spoke to some of those scammed by his woo-woo. The only thing they could have done to make the story better (other than truthfully reporting the arrest of Kevin Trudeau...) would have been to point out how bogus his "natural cures" were, but that wasn't really the focus of the story.

[Arkayik]

It always amazes me how gullible "we" (not you, but us, the unwashed masses) want to be...

"methinks thou dost protest too much" (sorry if I butchered the original), however, sometimes I think the more sceptical one is, the more one really wishes there was something to woo.... Like the woo instinct is being supressed...

Kind of like doubting Thomas, we really want to believe, so badly, but we can't.

And that is what the Trudeau's of the world seem to know and manipulate...