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Kevin Trudeau

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NOT to be confused with Garry Trudeau, the award-winning cartoonist who does Doonesbury, or with Pierre Trudeau, the former Prime Minister of Canada.


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Kevin Trudeau is an author, convicted felon,[1][2] and keeper of information that they don't want you to know. He is a shiny-chinned TV star who has appeared in numerous infomercials where he employs his talent as a silver-tongued operator of bullshit, teasing the viewer with bits and pieces of information that they don't want you to know; if you pay him money, he will reveal these "secrets", which usually amount to no more than common conspiracy theories and alternative medicine indoctrination, both of which help set a sucker up for further exploitation.

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[edit] Promotions and publications

He has written a book entitled Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About which provides information on how to go to his website to find out about non-drug/non-surgery cures for diseases and ailments such as cancer, herpes, arthritis, AIDS, multiple sclerosis, lupus, chronic fatigue syndrome, attention deficit disorder, muscular dystrophy and many more. Not one to pass up an opportunity for a quick buck, Trudeau has also written on weight loss and (in a stunning display of chutzpah) debt relief.

In the early 1990s he was promoting a system called Mega Memory,[3] and in the late 1990s promoted several products including Coral Calcium and something called Hair Farming, all of which got him in trouble with the Federal Trade Commission. He pled guilty twice in the early 1990s, once for check fraud and once for credit card fraud. He has been at war with the FTC ever since; much of the content of his "Natural Cures" books is him ranting against the FTC, FDA and other regulatory agencies.

Trudeau was heavily involved in Scientology, Amway, and more recently Neo-Tech, putting him within the long tradition of quacks who make the rounds among several other quack gurus before going into the business on their own. Considerable circumstantial evidence exists that he is still involved in all three, or at least promotes and swaps junk mail lists with them.

[edit] Apparent compulsions...

He compulsively uses the words "absolutely", "positively", "categorically", and "100%" a lot, absolutely positively 100% categorically fattening up his books with those words at the expense of actual content.

He also compulsively misuses quotation marks, in one of his books actually putting quotes around "Cures" in the title.

[edit] Examples of his "recommendations"

[edit] Alternative medicine

[edit] Food woo and dieting

[edit] Batshit insanity

[edit] The good (read: blatantly obvious) stuff

He also includes references for his information.

[edit] Creative sales techniques

Kevin Trudeau pioneered a fascinating multimedia technique. He used an infomercial to sell a glossy book which, in an interesting twist, turns out to be mainly a teaser/advertisement for his pay website. Thus he transcends the need for any actual product - everything is marketing. You pay to receive more advertising. Wanna bet that the main content of his pay website is advertisements for his next book?

Those who have signed up for his pay website report that they charge your credit card monthly while making it deliberately difficult to contact them requesting to unsubscribe, with such requests often ignored or taking several months to process, leaving the poor unfortunate who was stupid enough to give a convicted felon who pleaded gulity to credit card fraud their credit card number with the choice of either going through the long process of contesting several months' charges on their credit card, or just sucking up the loss.

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[edit] Footnotes

  1. A copy of the indictment
  2. "In 1990, Trudeau posed as a doctor in order to deposit $80,000 in false checks, and in 1991 he pleaded guilty to larceny. ... He spent two years in federal prison because of this conviction (Choi, 2005)." [1]
  3. See photographic memory for more on that.
  4. To be fair, bouncing on a trampoline will cure depression no matter what you're wearing. WHEEE!!!
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