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Mad Scientist
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Alberta
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Trudeau on 20/20
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN5ihrECJms
I never saw this before today. I thought others might enjoy it. I sure did! I love John Stossel and 20/20. They go over how Trudeau blatanly lies, always. They have dissatisfied customers that found no cures in his book. Etc. |
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Motion affecting a measuring device does not affect what is actually being measured, except to inaccurately measure it. the immaterial world doesn't matter, cause it ain't matter-Jeff Corey my karma ran over my dogma-vbloke The Lateral Truth: An Apostate's Bible Stories by Rebecca Bradley, read it! |
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Mad Scientist
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Alberta
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Oh, kevin over the top catering to other conspiracy theories: a reading from his newer book
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9j1Jfc8wxI We little people are doomed, dooooommmmed...Oh, he, like kyrah, is now claiming you can control your weight with thought. Yep, control that hypothalamus with thought, and you can eat alllll you want to and never gain weight. http://www.bobbarefootbest.com/system/shopexd.asp?id=55
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http://www.amazon.com/Weight-Loss-Cu.../dp/097878510X Books are the biggest gold mine ever. And he's made enough money on his other cons to buy air time on infomercials to sell the books and keep the profits going. And those rotten big pharma people are the only ones that care about profit. With all that money he has to buy huge houses and informercials, why doesn't he put some towards testing his claims. Ohhh because, unlike big pharma, he doesn't have to. |
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Motion affecting a measuring device does not affect what is actually being measured, except to inaccurately measure it. the immaterial world doesn't matter, cause it ain't matter-Jeff Corey my karma ran over my dogma-vbloke The Lateral Truth: An Apostate's Bible Stories by Rebecca Bradley, read it! |
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Pac-Man
Join Date: Mar 2005
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This guy makes Sylvia look like a saint. It makes me very, very
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Graduate Poster
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
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Philosopher
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Vancouver BC Canada
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Well, let's not go that far.
My hope is that widespread exposure will dry up the potential market, but the public needs to have a way to access legitemate information. 20/20 is a step in the right direction, but not a complete solution. My second hope is that an aware public will work toward developing a legislative framework so this type of fraud can be identified and dealt with. It really is just ordinary business fraud, as far as I'm concerned. Victims or their survivors need to come forward and press criminal charges. |
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"Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness." - Terry Pratchett |
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Titanium Puprhero
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Mayor of your front lawn.
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Honestly, I really do want to see what that asshat would do once he was diagnosed with cancer. I guarantee he would not use his own "cures."
If I ever find myself sitting next to him in an oncology waiting room, I will happily explain to the entire room what a fraud he is, then drag him out back and beat the everloving crap out of him. I rarely seethe with such anger that I wish to physically harm someone. He's at the top of a very short list of people that cause that in me. |
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Vancouver BC Canada
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"Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness." - Terry Pratchett |
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Philosopher
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Vancouver BC Canada
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"Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness." - Terry Pratchett |
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Philosopher
Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 6,660
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You know what drives me positively insane?
Trying to decide who's worse, Sylvia or Kevin! It's like deciding whether you'd rrather eat puke or feces! Or which of your children you love more. |
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Titanium Puprhero
Join Date: Jun 2005
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Philosopher
Join Date: Feb 2007
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Ultimately, I'd go with Sylv but I think that's only cause I know way more about her and, as they say, familiarity breeds contempt.
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Titanium Puprhero
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Philosopher
Join Date: Feb 2007
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Screwing with someone's health to make a buck is the lowest of the low but it'll be a long time before I forget how cruel Sylvia was to those poor people.
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Mad Scientist
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Alberta
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eh, this ain't no contest
Medical quackery and paranormal woo cons are quite different leagues most of the time. Although, slinky sylvia does her own kind of medical advice idiocy too. They are both horrendously twisted in their own many devious ways. Sylvia does a wee bit less conspiracy theory, and Trudeau does a wee bit less paranormal woo. I wonder who has hurt the most people though, and caused the most deaths? Anyone able to get a score card? Unless the victims come forward more, then we'll never know. |
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Motion affecting a measuring device does not affect what is actually being measured, except to inaccurately measure it. the immaterial world doesn't matter, cause it ain't matter-Jeff Corey my karma ran over my dogma-vbloke The Lateral Truth: An Apostate's Bible Stories by Rebecca Bradley, read it! |
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Join Date: Mar 2007
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Muse
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: In the happy state of denial
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Regarding Sylvia and Trudeau i would guess that Trudeau must be the most dangerous one. From transcripts ive seen from Sylvias readings, although she makes stupid claims about peoples health, she however tells them to seek further advice and treatment from real doctors. Trudeau does the opposite, telling sick people to quit their medication and abondone real health care.
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Titanium Puprhero
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Mayor of your front lawn.
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I've received no less than 5 copies of that book from people who apparently think if I change the pH of my bloodstream all that cancer will just wither away.
Every time I got it, I was polite and threw the book in the trash later. Of course, at the time I was on rather heavy medications. I doubt I would be so kind now that I have my mobility back, and am not on painkillers. |
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Mad Scientist
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Alberta
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If you actually could change the pH of the blood for just a drop in time, you'd be adversely affected either way.
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Changes in pH cause the blood to not exchange gasses effectively, and you'd die of a lack of oxygen. |
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Motion affecting a measuring device does not affect what is actually being measured, except to inaccurately measure it. the immaterial world doesn't matter, cause it ain't matter-Jeff Corey my karma ran over my dogma-vbloke The Lateral Truth: An Apostate's Bible Stories by Rebecca Bradley, read it! |
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Graduate Poster
Join Date: Nov 2006
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The idiots who talk about controlling blood pH (acidity/alkalinity) are usually talking about urine or saliva pH. The pH of the blood is tightly controlled between 7.35 and 7.45. I once read a testimonial saying the person had a blood pH of 5.5. That's the blood pH of someone who has been dead a long time (it turned out to be her urine). The link, below, is to a good article on pH woo:
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/20...e_or_woo_1.php |
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Critical Thinker
Join Date: Apr 2006
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unfortunately i recently found out one of my inlaws had gotten kevin's book "free." they were complaining because it was one of those things where it was free plus shipping and handling. and of course s/h was bumped up to overnight and then it didnt come overnight, yada yada yada and in the end it was about fifty bucks and they refused to let them return it.
i checked out the book from the library and the saddest thing is he doesnt really give any cures in the book. it has been a little while since i read it, but i was at least hoping for something like a recipe for a cure, but it is mostly either common sense crap that at least wont hurt you or paranoid ramblings about how there are cures they dont want you to know about. but i didnt really see anything that was even concrete direction in terms of curing the big diseases. it was just retarded... |
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Graduate Poster
Join Date: Nov 2006
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Yes, there are no "cures" described in the book. One buys it for the privilege of being sent to his web-site where one can purchase information on the "cures." Despite the fact that this amply documented in reviews by disgruntled, "true AltMed believers" at Amazon- he sells his junk hand-over-fist.
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