Ad fraud?

[ShunNakamura]

Here is some food for thought for ya all whilst I go run to college. I think I actually remember seeing this infomercial too.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9006287/

Thoughts? I don't think this will spark too much of a debate.. looks clear cut from what I read there. But then again sometimes things that look simple can be the most complex.

Bah.. stupid mysterious side.. Now I really gotta go.

[Flying Mullet]

I'd be curious to see the infomercial and see if he says that you will be cured or if people are drawing those conclusions themselves.

[ShunNakamura]

now is when I wish I recalled more about the infomercial. gah.. I started to listen due to my habbit of getting ill off of medicine.. but he sounded too much like a conspiry thearist to me.. so I stoped listening and changed the channel.

[lordblazer]

peope grow herbs in their gardens for cheap then crush them up and make them into capsules. Thus selling it overpriced. Thus making money. lol.

[Shoeberto]

The Daily Show talked about this guy last week sometime, and it's pretty obvious he's a con man. He's got a history of stealing from people, and putting together all this BS is just another get rich quick scheme for him.

It's hard to believe that it's a top seller. You'd think people would be smarter than that...oh wait.

[Madame Adequate]

Yeah, there's no debate here. Lock him up for fraudulent advertising and take the money he's made to refund the people who purchased whichever products he falsely advertised.

[Flying Mullet]

I agree that if the informercial said that the book would heal people and didn't he should be sued. But as for the book; he's done nothing wrong. If people are that dumb then that's their own fault. We can only go so far to protect people from their own stupidity.

[ShunNakamura]

I have been thinking more about the bit of the add that I saw.. and well I am remembering that some of it was oddly phrased so it is possible that he never said the cures were in the book... the book sounded like it mostly dealt with the evil corportate government controling medicine to prevent people from having cheap cures, or some such. As I said it sounded so much like a conspiricy theory that I lost interest.