Kevin Trudeau — Again
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In 1998, Trudeau paid half a million dollars to settle a Federal Trade Commission complaint that several infomercials he helped create were false and misleading. The products included a “hair farming system” that — according to the infomercial — was supposed to “finally end baldness in the human race,” and “a breakthrough that in 60 seconds can eliminate” addictions, purportedly discovered when a certain “Dr. Callahan” was “studying quantum physics.”
Ah yes… Dr. Callahan. Callahan’s “discovery” is now known as Thought Field Therapy. You can read more about this “amazing breakthrough” on the Debunking Thought Field Therapy site. Fascinating stuff. It’s amazing what people will believe…
Salon.com also published an interesting article about Trudeau this past summer and I blogged about it at the time.
Apparently Trudeau is a Scientologist — which goes a long way towards explaining his apparent complete lack of a conscience.
Posted by RebeccaHartong on October 23, 2005 under Uncategorized
Trudeau is a fraud and a charlatan. Nothing of his works. All he wants to do is to con a lot of people out of their hard earned money. Where is the scientific proof for his chaos eliminator?
Trudeau is from cloud-cuckoo land, hopefully others won’t follow him there.
Today’s (10/23/05) Washington Post had a great article on this guy. However, it pointed out that because of a 2003 complaint to the FTC, he wasn’t allowed to hawk anything but ‘literature’.
Sadly, the guy STILL appears this morning on an infomercial on CNBC…selling women’s skin retorative products. I wonder if CNBC sells that time, or if it’s our cable carrier?
you people suck This guy knows the truth you must be all SPS if you dont like anything about him
go suck a nut losers.
Thanks for that brilliant riposte, Joe. For those of you unfamiliar with Scientology lingo, an “SP” is a “suppressive person”. Among the whacky things Scientology teaches, is that many of an individual’s problems (Joe’s problems, for example), are really the fault of negative and unsupportive people around him.
How do you kow Kevin is a scientologist? He may have read a couple of those books (and liked them) but he went to a Catholic high school and was raised Catholic.
You know… I don’t really remember where I got the idea he was a Scientologist. I wrote this post about a year and a half ago. The majority of Scientologists were brought up in some other religion, though, so… that he was raised as a Catholic is no guarantee that he’s NOT a Scientologist. It doesn’t really matter — but it would explain some of his tactics.
Hmm I’m pulled from both ways. I believe a lot in of the information thats in his books, almost all of it. It wasn’t like I read it and was like,”wow why didn’t I think of that” because I already do a lot of the things that are in the book like eating organic and using organic products. But..and a big BUT, I realized that he was promoting scientology and I was taken back. Well I decided to look research it and what I read made me laugh, really I laughed!! Man who would ever join this crazy cult!! That made me lose credibility for Kevin and that makes me sad.
People have to remember that Kevin Trudeau is just a reporter, and not a doctor. He just goes around repeating what a lot of other doctors have already said and people give him credit for it. Some of the stuff he says is very true, but none of these are his idea’s. I work in a natural doctors office doing some of these things. We just don’t make the millions he makes going on T.V. with it. I did read one of his books and he does bring up trying scientology for any mental heath problem. In fact that’s the only thing he recomened for any mental health problem. Which to me is a big red flag. I think if I want to a natural doctor and he recomened scientology for a problem, I would not go back.