Quotes about Con Artists from the world's top natural health / natural living authors
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 "It's like a tasting menu for con artists and grifters, so tempting that in some cities drug dealers have turned to mortgage fraud, plaguing lower-income neighborhoods with crooked mortgages rather than crystal meth.8
Elsewhere, it was reported that lenders made millions in mortgage loans to inmates of the Colorado prison system. A whole group of miscreants issuing out of the Rocky Mountain state pen were able to buy 17 houses for inflated prices and take away $2.1 million in excess loan proceeds.9
And it was exactly at that moment?"- William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.) |
 "This is also a popular tactic in the nutritional supplements industry, or in the more recent examples from the weight loss industry, where con artists are hawking pills that tell people they can lose weight without dieting, without exercising and without changing anything else in their life.
These miracle diet pills, or 48-hour weight loss schemes, promise to produce miraculous results without requiring effort on the parts of consumers. You'll see some of these advertised on television, especially on late-night infomercials. These products also use the disempowerment mind hack."- Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.) |
 "One thing zealots, fundamentalists, con artists, and too many politicians have in common is the deadpan sincerity in their voices. I have met some of each, and I still can't tell whether they believe what they are saying or are simply so vested in making others believe.
"So, did you enjoy your visit to my family coffee farm?" He changed the subject easily.
"Uh, well, yes, it was very well maintained. And the bathrooms were very clean."
"That is good. We have an excellent coffee there. Perhaps you would be interested in purchasing our coffee?"- Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.) |
 "Yet there are also charlatans and con artists in the business of taking advantage of sick people, so it's worth checking out an uncertified practitioner especially closely
There are also practitioners who are knowledgeable in several fields. It is not uncommon today to find medical doctors who are also certified Ayurvedic physicians, licensed acupuncturists, and licensed naturopaths—all in one. Healers tend to have a lifelong interest in healing, and a curiosity about new approaches. Licensed professionals are also required to obtain continuing education credits, or CEs, each year."- Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.) |
 "We have been conditioned to think that we look bad and the only way you can possibly improve is to line the pockets of the con artists who feed off your insecurities.
The real answer to health and fitness for the average person may be somewhere between fit and fat. At least that may be your starting point. I say this not to have you strive for mediocrity. I say this from my own experience of lowering my physical expectations to motivate myself to take action."- Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.) |
 "Scammers, con artists, identity thieves, and a wide range of hard-core criminal types will also be inspired to step up the pace of their illegal activities. Painful economic conditions will not only leave Americans more exposed but will also lead to cutbacks in law enforcement, the legal system, and other government programs as well as private sector services, such as parking-lot security and emergency lighting, which make for a generally safer environment. Increasingly, the bad guys will be given free reign to do as they please."- Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Get the book.) |
 "The public has got to be more wary of potions; by early April con artists on the Internet were advertising disinfectants that "kill SARS su-pervirus," dietary supplements that supposedly strengthened the immune system against the pathogen, and masks and gloves designed for the germ. These were patently ridiculous, since scientists had not even determined what the pathogen was yet, much less how to stop it.
Parents must appreciate the wisdom of allowing the natural powers of the immune system to develop fully in their children."- Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.) |
 "A large portion of the literature on shamanism specialized in demonstrating that shamans are con artists who use sleight of hand to trick the other members of their tribes and that, in the best of cases, they are charlatans whose methods are irrational and superstitious.
In traditional psychiatry and psychoanalytical-oriented anthropology, shamans were regarded as schizophrenics, psychopaths, and sufferers of arctic hysteria, that is, as people who are ill. Strange indeed that these ill people are the very ones who concern themselves with the task of healing."- Christian Ratsch, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications (Get the book.) |
 "Most of them were developed and pioneered by highly respectable physicians or scientists —not quacks or con artists. The best of the alternative, non-toxic treatments for cancer have had blatantly higher success rates than conventional treatments, and these success rates reflect "real" cures, not phony redefined cures! But these successful cancer treatments have been suppressed to one degree or another, and many misconceptions about alternative cancer treatments have flourished."- Tanya Harter Pierce, Outsmart Your Cancer: Alternative Non-Toxic Treatments That Work (Get the book.) |
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