Kevin Trudeau - Diet Conspiracy Theorist - Found Guilty of Criminal Contempt

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Kevin Trudeau had several conspiracy theories. One of which is that in the 1950s a British doctor (A.T.W. Simeons) discovered a "miracle drug" that would change the body's metabolism, allowing you to eat whatever you liked, and maintain a healthy weight. However, in this theory, the powerful food and diet industry conspired to cover up this secret.

Trudeau wrote a book "The Weight Loss Cure 'They' Don't Want You to Know About", and with the help of some very seductive infomercials the book shot to #1 on the New York Times Bestseller list. The infomercial depicted a very enticing diet, where you could eat steak and chocolate. But the reality was very different, with the book calling for a period of eating just 500 calories a day, taking lots of herbal supplements, and injections of the hCG hormone.



Trudeau had previously been fined for making misleading claims regarding herbal remedies - about which he also promoted conspiracy theories regarding "big pharma". As part of his then plea agreement he had agreed not to make any more misleading claims, however on Nov 12th 2013, Trudeau was convicted of criminal contempt for precisely that.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...in-tv-pitchmans-case-20131112,0,2063993.story

TV pitchman Kevin Trudeau was convicted today of criminal contempt for airing misleading infomercials about a diet book he published.

The federal jury deliberated for less than an hour before handing down the verdict in the downtown Chicago courthouse. Trudeau faces the possibility of years in prison.

Trudeau, 50, was found guilty of violating the terms of a decade-old consent order in which he promised the Federal Trade Commission that he would stop making misleading ads touting his books.
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Alternative medicine has many adherents, and many people remain convinced that Trudeau is not a con-man, a the victim of a real conspiracy. But Trudeau's "cures" seem utterly without evidence, and everything he does seems designed only to make money, based upon exploiting people's willingness to believe conspiracy theories, combines with some reasonable sounding criticisms of conflicts of interest and profit motives.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Trudeau

Trudeau says that pharmaceutical companies "don't want us to get well" because curing disease is not nearly as profitable as treating it in perpetuity. According to Trudeau, the corporate profit motive overrides the human desire to truly help people.

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He states in one infomercial that there are twelve known cures for cancer but that they are being kept from the general public by the FDA, the FTC, and the pharmaceutical companies. He also says that the FDA and the FTC are two of the most corrupt organizations in America and that there is a long list of chemical ingredients that are secretly not required to be on the FDA ingredients label that are damaging to human health.

Trudeau offers a conspiracy theory, saying that the drug industry and the FDA work with each other to effectively deceive the public by banning all-natural cures in order to protect the profits of the drug industry. Trudeau says that FDA commissioners who leave the FDA to work for large drug companies are paid millions of dollars. In any other industry, according to Trudeau, this would be called "bribery," a "conflict of interest" or "payoffs." Trudeau also says in his infomercials that the food industry includes chemicals (such as MSG and aspartame) to get people "addicted to food" and to "make people obese."[39]

Trudeau has also declared that he will lead a crusade against the FDA and the FTC and will make an effort to sue companies who promote false claims in advertising, such as leading pharmaceutical companies.
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Mick you owe me an irony meter sir! That Trudeau wants to sue companies for making false claim in advertising is just too much. Also if cancer is so eminently treatable, why don't the big guys who get cancer get cured. Or was Steve Jobs not considered "essential" or did he not keep up on his dues to the Illuminati?
 
Mick you owe me an irony meter sir! That Trudeau wants to sue companies for making false claim in advertising is just too much. Also if cancer is so eminently treatable, why don't the big guys who get cancer get cured. Or was Steve Jobs not considered "essential" or did he not keep up on his dues to the Illuminati?

Yes, the "cures for cancer" thing is a bit of a giveaway. Anyone who has suffered losing a loved one to cancer knows that a cure for cancer is not something that people are going to cover up.
 
Yes, the "cures for cancer" thing is a bit of a giveaway. Anyone who has suffered losing a loved one to cancer knows that a cure for cancer is not something that people are going to cover up.

Also, he doesn't seem to understand capitalism very well. Any cure for cancer will mean a huge surge in profits for the company producing it, continuing until the rights become available for others to make cheaper versions. The idea that the CEOs and top management of all the big pharma companies would agree among themselves to defer producing a cure so that they could split the profits available from treatment over a longer time period is patently ludicrous. Part of the problem with modern business is that the quest for immediate profits takes precedence over all else - as seen from the behaviour of the top men in banking leading up to the crisis they created. Commerce is notoriously short sighted.
 
Steve Jobs might be alive today if he had not tried the alternative route first.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2011/10/24/steve-jobs-cancer-treatment-regrets/

That article nearly made me cry. It is so sad when people don't get the help deep down they know they need. I would have understood his decision involving cancer if he had the same financial issues as Walter White, but unlike Walter White, Steve Jobs basically could print his own money. As the article pointed out he got the cutting edge of treatments, but the wait had done the damage. Reminds me of my sister-in-law who found out she had cervical cancer. My initial response to hearing I have cancer would be, "When are we scheduling a follow up to rip this stuff out." She had a wait and see attitude. At first they could have cryo freezed the cancer out, but since she let it sit for a few months like Jobs, the cancer spread. In the end she needed surgery and was told due to the surgery she may never be able to carry a child to term. Long story short, you hear you have cancer, get that shit taken care of. You might be sitting there thinking and waiting, but cancer doesn't wait. It just keeps growing a lot of times, killing the host.
 
Heard about Kevin from Mark Dice (back when I was a conspiracy theorist fanboy of him). Mark has actually made several videos where he exposes Kevin. . Just search for Kevin on Dice's channel, he got alot more videos about him.
 
I have heard this before a few times but I don't recall the original source of the quote.
"What do Doctors call alternative medicine that's been proven to work? Medicine!"
 
The thing that always amuses me is people automatically assume that a cure for cancer is going to be cheaper than a cancer treatment. Maybe the cure will take longer and uses more drugs.
 
This guy is a total con purely motivated by the money. However, this claim is pretty accurate:
He also says that the FDA and the FTC are two of the most corrupt organizations in America.
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When people say a cure for cancer, they also overlook the fact that cancer is not just one disease. Pancreatic cancer is different from breast cancer is different from prostate cancer etc. etc. Each type of cancer can work differently and at varying levels of severity. Furthermore, people can respond differently to treatments, in part because of the varying levels of severity thing, it depends on the nature of the mutation and how aggressive it is. It's insanely complex to come up with an effective treatment and a single cure is not really looked at as feasible to researchers anymore. When we talk about curing cancer now, the realistic outlook is that we will learn how to cure each different type one at a time. So when people say that corporations are hiding or suppressing information about a cure for cancer (from what I've seen the context is usually implying all cancer), it demonstrates blatant ignorance of what cancer is and immediately throws up a red flag for bunk.
 
When people say a cure for cancer, they also overlook the fact that cancer is not just one disease. Pancreatic cancer is different from breast cancer is different from prostate cancer etc. etc. Each type of cancer can work differently and at varying levels of severity. So when people say that corporations are hiding or suppressing information about a cure for cancer (from what I've seen the context is usually implying all cancer), it demonstrates blatant ignorance of what cancer is and immediately throws up a red flag for bunk.

And cancer can mutate inside a single individual from one kind to another, from day to day changing itself. For instance one day it is vulnerable to a certain drug, the next day it mutates into one it is not, the next day a drug that slows it down or even diminishes a tumor might also cause it to release a flood of new versions.

Imagine a disease that is Malaria one day, Tuberculosis the next week, Meningitis the next month, and Aids six months later, and Plague after one year, except that in the case of cancer, none of these mutations are exactly like any disease I listed, they are each likely to be unique and unresearched, perhaps on an individual level of infinite varieties.

Trudeau or anyone else has a cure for that?
 
Kevin Trudeau had several conspiracy theories. One of which is that in the 1950s a British doctor (A.T.W. Simeons) discovered a "miracle drug" that would change the body's metabolism, allowing you to eat whatever you liked, and maintain a healthy weight. However, in this theory, the powerful food and diet industry conspired to cover up this secret.

Trudeau wrote a book "The Weight Loss Cure 'They' Don't Want You to Know About", and with the help of some very seductive infomercials the book shot to #1 on the New York Times Bestseller list. The infomercial depicted a very enticing diet, where you could eat steak and chocolate. But the reality was very different, with the book calling for a period of eating just 500 calories a day, taking lots of herbal supplements, and injections of the hCG hormone.



Trudeau had previously been fined for making misleading claims regarding herbal remedies - about which he also promoted conspiracy theories regarding "big pharma". As part of his then plea agreement he had agreed not to make any more misleading claims, however on Nov 12th 2013, Trudeau was convicted of criminal contempt for precisely that.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...in-tv-pitchmans-case-20131112,0,2063993.story

TV pitchman Kevin Trudeau was convicted today of criminal contempt for airing misleading infomercials about a diet book he published.

The federal jury deliberated for less than an hour before handing down the verdict in the downtown Chicago courthouse. Trudeau faces the possibility of years in prison.

Trudeau, 50, was found guilty of violating the terms of a decade-old consent order in which he promised the Federal Trade Commission that he would stop making misleading ads touting his books.
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Alternative medicine has many adherents, and many people remain convinced that Trudeau is not a con-man, a the victim of a real conspiracy. But Trudeau's "cures" seem utterly without evidence, and everything he does seems designed only to make money, based upon exploiting people's willingness to believe conspiracy theories, combines with some reasonable sounding criticisms of conflicts of interest and profit motives.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Trudeau

Trudeau says that pharmaceutical companies "don't want us to get well" because curing disease is not nearly as profitable as treating it in perpetuity. According to Trudeau, the corporate profit motive overrides the human desire to truly help people.

...

He states in one infomercial that there are twelve known cures for cancer but that they are being kept from the general public by the FDA, the FTC, and the pharmaceutical companies. He also says that the FDA and the FTC are two of the most corrupt organizations in America and that there is a long list of chemical ingredients that are secretly not required to be on the FDA ingredients label that are damaging to human health.

Trudeau offers a conspiracy theory, saying that the drug industry and the FDA work with each other to effectively deceive the public by banning all-natural cures in order to protect the profits of the drug industry. Trudeau says that FDA commissioners who leave the FDA to work for large drug companies are paid millions of dollars. In any other industry, according to Trudeau, this would be called "bribery," a "conflict of interest" or "payoffs." Trudeau also says in his infomercials that the food industry includes chemicals (such as MSG and aspartame) to get people "addicted to food" and to "make people obese."[39]

Trudeau has also declared that he will lead a crusade against the FDA and the FTC and will make an effort to sue companies who promote false claims in advertising, such as leading pharmaceutical companies.
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Why don't more of these guys get thrown in jail? They are worse than politicians and bankers in my opinion. It's clearer to me the wrong doing these guys are doing, than any politician or banker could ever do! Diseases and Birth Defects are very personal to me and my family and I cannot take it when some con men try to sell us bunk or when people believe nonsense about getting "healthy" or the evil nursing home conspiracy where you go in and never come out... Dying and disease is one of the largest and most emotional industries in the world, and that's why more people are willing to hope/believe that a cure is possible and is being kept hidden! You are in your most vulnerable state even when you have a cold. Don't even forget about the guys who have been claiming to have the cure for the common cold ever since the common cold was first recorded!
 
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Heard about Kevin from Mark Dice (back when I was a conspiracy theorist fanboy of him). Mark has actually made several videos where he exposes Kevin. . Just search for Kevin on Dice's channel, he got alot more videos about him.

Christian, what's interesting is that, although Dice exposes fraudster, Kevin Trudeau, he appears to be a true believer in the NWO, Illuminati, Bilderberg, conspiracy network.
 
I was a member of KT's "Global Information Network". I could write a book myself about his scam and a big metabunk thread about it but personally my aim is more at big institutions.

As for the "cure to cancer". I work in pharma, partly. There is definitely a cure for cancer but there are so many that its obscures the truth. It is a holistic thing basically. More prevention than a cure. Chemo sucks though. Cant advice anybody else but I wouldnt have it myself. People that have are not getting more well. You can just seen that with the naked eye alone even. I would follow friends of mine that cure there own cancer without big pharma.

The obvious reason big pharma dont market the "cure" is because they make more from their drugs than they would from the relative free holistic approach.
 
I was a member of KT's "Global Information Network". I could write a book myself about his scam and a big metabunk thread about it but personally my aim is more at big institutions.

As for the "cure to cancer". I work in pharma, partly. There is definitely a cure for cancer but there are so many that its obscures the truth. It is a holistic thing basically. More prevention than a cure. Chemo sucks though. Cant advice anybody else but I wouldnt have it myself. People that have are not getting more well. You can just seen that with the naked eye alone even. I would follow friends of mine that cure there own cancer without big pharma.

The obvious reason big pharma dont market the "cure" is because they make more from their drugs than they would from the relative free holistic approach.

Meh. If there was a holistic approach that actually worked then knowledge of it would have spread far and wide in this interweb-connected world of ours. I've lost 3 members of my family, so far, to cancer. I've lost one of my best friends. The latter took the holistic route. He died quickest.

At the moment we have friends whose 5 year old daughter is fighting leukemia. She's been fighting it for almost 2 years, and the medicine has kept her going. She might even come out of it. Like the girl's mother, I feel like taking the idiots who propose a non-medical approach to saving her child ... I feel like taking them outside for five minutes and letting the rage within out. Actually, five minutes would be too long. 60 seconds would be more than enough.

There can be no cure for cancer. Every cancer, and there seems to be a ridiculous amount of them, operates a little differently. Science has been doing a reasonable job of finding ways to fight these cancers. Some cancers we can now catch early and destroy. Others we have lots of work to do yet.

To think that Pharma is holding back because it can make long term profits, well that's not how corporations work. They fuck the planet in the quest for the most money NOW. That's probably the most psychopathic quality of modern capitalism, that drive for immediate profit. They don't have that kind of long-term view you think they have. If they did the planet wouldn't be heading towards being uninhabitable.
 
Meh. If there was a holistic approach that actually worked then knowledge of it would have spread far and wide in this interweb-connected world of ours. I've lost 3 members of my family, so far, to cancer. I've lost one of my best friends. The latter took the holistic route. He died quickest.

At the moment we have friends whose 5 year old daughter is fighting leukemia. She's been fighting it for almost 2 years, and the medicine has kept her going. She might even come out of it. Like the girl's mother, I feel like taking the idiots who propose a non-medical approach to saving her child ... I feel like taking them outside for five minutes and letting the rage within out. Actually, five minutes would be too long. 60 seconds would be more than enough.

There can be no cure for cancer. Every cancer, and there seems to be a ridiculous amount of them, operates a little differently. Science has been doing a reasonable job of finding ways to fight these cancers. Some cancers we can now catch early and destroy. Others we have lots of work to do yet.

To think that Pharma is holding back because it can make long term profits, well that's not how corporations work. They fuck the planet in the quest for the most money NOW. That's probably the most psychopathic quality of modern capitalism, that drive for immediate profit. They don't have that kind of long-term view you think they have. If they did the planet wouldn't be heading towards being uninhabitable.

Well that is your belief dude. I have had family that took the holistic approach and cure themselves without chemo and radiotherapy. People should be aware that giving money to big pharma is the only solution. Their treatments seem to kill you and the cancer and just see which one dies first before trying to bring you back from the brink. People on chemo hardly look like they are getting more healthy. Do they. Its generally lack of health that causes cancer.

Besides the amount of radiation leaking from the stricken power plant in Japan is going to treble the issue.
 
Heard about Kevin from Mark Dice (back when I was a conspiracy theorist fanboy of him). Mark has actually made several videos where he exposes Kevin. . Just search for Kevin on Dice's channel, he got alot more videos about him.


Abe, the guy Mark is interviewing is one of my best friends. We essentially started the Anti-GIN campaign together. I left GIN before Abe did.
 
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Their treatments seem to kill you and the cancer and just see which one dies first before trying to bring you back from the brink. People on chemo hardly look like they are getting more healthy. Do they. Its generally lack of health that causes cancer.

That's a horrible misrepresentation of cancer treatment. Different types of chemotherapy regimens are given in different situations and yield varying results in each case. To forego clinical treatment for a holistic approach could kill a patient when they actually could have been saved. End of story. Holistic medicine has just not been demonstrated to be effective in treating the cancer itself. You can't say otherwise just by stating that the patients "don't look like they are getting better."
 
Is this true?
I thought it was age.

Bad health can increase risk of cancer (smoking, obesity, etc.) but ultimately it's a mutation in the DNA. Mutations accumulate over time so even if you're healthy there is still a risk that increases with age.
 
That's a horrible misrepresentation of cancer treatment. Different types of chemotherapy regimens are given in different situations and yield varying results in each case. To forego clinical treatment for a holistic approach could kill a patient when they actually could have been saved. End of story. Holistic medicine has just not been demonstrated to be effective in treating the cancer itself. You can't say otherwise just by stating that the patients "don't look like they are getting better."

Dude I have seen what cancer patients go through in my family. Sometimes they end up on hormones and end up looking almost sub-human. That doesn't seem healthy to me. Call me crazy. Ok I am not blaming big pharmacy in a conspiracy kinda way but there is obviously a profit motive for them not to look at cheaper natural holistic cures. I guess we have to make our own decisions on it because both the natural and artificial methods have their pro's and con's. That is all I am saying. Personally, I would choose the natural approach because chemo deficiency in ones body doesn't cause cancer, that's for sure.
 
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Dude I have seen what cancer patients go through in my family. Sometimes they end up on hormones and end up looking almost sub-human. That doesn't seem healthy to me. Call me crazy. Ok I am not blaming big pharmacy in a conspiracy kinda way but there is obviously a profit motive for them not to look at cheaper natural holistic cures. I guess we have to make our own decisions on it because both the natural and artificial methods have their pro's and con's. That is all I am saying. Personally, I would choose the natural approach because chemo deficiency in ones body doesn't cause cancer, that's for sure.

Well that is incorrect. If they isolated say an enzyme from a lemon that effectively killed cancer cells they could refine it, design it targeting mechanism and slap a patent on it for its use in cancer.
 
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Dude I have seen what cancer patients go through in my family. Sometimes they end up on hormones and end up looking almost sub-human. That doesn't seem healthy to me. Call me crazy. Ok I am not blaming big pharmacy in a conspiracy kinda way but there is obviously a profit motive for them not to look at cheaper natural holistic cures. I guess we have to make our own decisions on it because both the natural and artificial methods have their pro's and con's. That is all I am saying. Personally, I would choose the natural approach because chemo deficiency in ones body doesn't cause cancer, that's for sure.

The reason that big pharma doesn't look at cheaper natural holistic cures is the ones posted on the internet do not work. Most medications are cheap to make (the second instance) the first instance requires millions of dollars in research and testing. If you have studies that show cheap holistic cures work post them. As for the family issues, many people have seen family members go through chemo. Some have been successful and some are't. In some cases the choice to undergo chemo or not has less to do with a cure as harboring a hope. That's where the quality of life issue comes in. "I'm I willing to suffer the effects of chemo for a small chance that I might live). If my sister had taken holistic "cures" instead of chemo she would be dead.
 
The reason that big pharma doesn't look at cheaper natural holistic cures is the ones posted on the internet do not work. Most medications are cheap to make (the second instance) the first instance requires millions of dollars in research and testing. If you have studies that show cheap holistic cures work post them. As for the family issues, many people have seen family members go through chemo. Some have been successful and some are't. In some cases the choice to undergo chemo or not has less to do with a cure as harboring a hope. That's where the quality of life issue comes in. "I'm I willing to suffer the effects of chemo for a small chance that I might live). If my sister had taken holistic "cures" instead of chemo she would be dead.

I am talking about being healthy in general. And consuming healthy things like fruit, veg and fresh filtered water. Not quackery like fake tablets or something.
 
Dude I have seen what cancer patients go through in my family. Sometimes they end up on hormones and end up looking almost sub-human. That doesn't seem healthy to me...
Having cancer isn't healthy either, ie, if they have cancer, wouldn't they kind of look a bit crap?

I don't think your judgement of the aesthetic appearance of someone undergoing treatment for a life-threatening condition is really a good way to measure whether the treatment itself is worse than the disease.
Chemo is hard on people, but so is cancer.
 
I am talking about being healthy in general. And consuming healthy things like fruit, veg and fresh filtered water. Not quackery like fake tablets or something.
Cancer still comes down to a game of chance as you get older - living unhealthy stacks the deck against you, but living longer does as well.
 
I am talking about being healthy in general. And consuming healthy things like fruit, veg and fresh filtered water. Not quackery like fake tablets or something.

Could you expound on this sentence from above.
I would follow friends of mine that cure there own cancer without big pharma.
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How do they do that?
 
I am talking about being healthy in general. And consuming healthy things like fruit, veg and fresh filtered water. Not quackery like fake tablets or something.
If eating a healthy diet was all you had to do, then why do people who eat a healthy diet their whole lives still end up being diagnosed with cancer?o_O
 
Dude I have seen what cancer patients go through in my family. Sometimes they end up on hormones and end up looking almost sub-human. That doesn't seem healthy to me. Call me crazy. Ok I am not blaming big pharmacy in a conspiracy kinda way but there is obviously a profit motive for them not to look at cheaper natural holistic cures. I guess we have to make our own decisions on it because both the natural and artificial methods have their pro's and con's. That is all I am saying. Personally, I would choose the natural approach because chemo deficiency in ones body doesn't cause cancer, that's for sure.

I've seen it too. Would you rather have them suffer metastasized tumors all over their body or receive treatment that, although tough to go through, could save them? They would look a hell of a lot worse with late-stage metastasized tumors, I can tell you that for sure. And again, not every chemotherapy treatment will do what you describe. It depends on the cancer and the treatment. What do you mean by chemo deficiency? Chemotherapies certainly have cured cancers, if that's what you mean.

Science is a competitive, scrutinizing field. Not just pharma affiliated labs are looking for cures. Scientists all over the world in many different labs are looking for something that can treat cancers. If evidence for a magic bullet existed, it would be huge. Especially if it were "natural" If it were straight form the environment, anyone could study it and the effects would be scientifically documented. There very well may be a cancer cure from some herbal plant, but if there is one we haven't found it yet. Almost every popular holistic approach has been tested in the lab and has not been found to be effective in treating cancer on its own.
 
Cancer still comes down to a game of chance as you get older - living unhealthy stacks the deck against you, but living longer does as well.

I am pretty sure people that have had chemo have more chance of getting more cancer than those that have not. and not just because they already have had cancer. While those who are saved from natural cures have less chance because of the treatment.
 
If eating a healthy diet was all you had to do, then why do people who eat a healthy diet their whole lives still end up being diagnosed with cancer?o_O

It is not 100%. I never said it was. We all have cancer. It is just not out of control in most people.
 
Could you expound on this sentence from above.
I would follow friends of mine that cure there own cancer without big pharma.
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How do they do that?

Not really. There isn't a specific food to eat that is a magic cancer cure although some do apparently have anti-cancer properties. Different people have different dietary needs.
 
Not really. There isn't a specific food to eat that is a magic cancer cure although some do apparently have anti-cancer properties. Different people have different dietary needs.

I would contend there is no food or collection of foods that are a magic cancer cure. At least not proven to be.
 
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