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 "KEVIN TRUDEAU SUES FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION FOR "FALSE ADVERTISING" National Consumer Advocate and FTC Critic Seeks End to Ongoing Retaliation
Chicago, February 28,2005 Kevin Trudeau, an author who is fast becoming one of the nation's leading consumer activists, filed today two separate suits against the United States government charging the Federal Trade Commission with publishing false and misleading information.
Mr. Trudeau is suing the FTC for very much the same reason that the FTC sues people—for, in essence, a form of false advertising."- Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.) |
 "Alternative medicine will be the talk of the day, and false advertising will be illegal.Honest science will arise; psychiatrists will be recognized for what they are: pretending to be scientists while they are criminals in many cases. Psychiatry will be gone one day because of their own crimes and incompetence, which is so well documented throughout history. We will have strong antidrug-movements as we had anti-war-movements, which will watch every little move those drug-companies do. Their true goal: money, money and money will be revealed. The stocks of these giants will fall."- Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) |
 "In the name of profit and growth we are fed a steady diet of false advertising, outrageous marketing claims, outright lies and mass deception all designed to fatten the wallets and swell the bottom lines of companies in the health and fitness industries. The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie exposes many aspects of these gargantuan businesses that feed off our vulnerabilities.
This book brings together in one easy-to-read work both the deceptive shenanigans and the real-world solutions to a healthy and fit lifestyle. Craig Pepin-Donat is not content with simply telling you what is wrong."- Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.) |
 "On rare occasions, the FDA has clamped down on the most extreme examples of false advertising by drug companies, but only after the misleading ads already aired for months.
When it comes to advertising, the unwritten agreement between the FDA and Big Pharma is clear: Drug companies are free to promote toxic drugs using blatantly misleading ads filled with pseudoscientific claims, without any fear of being interrupted by the FDA."- Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.) |
| "Trudeau is suing the FTC for very much the same reason that the FTC sues people—for, in essence, a form of false advertising. According to the suits, the FTC has, by its own standards, committed a flagrant violation of the rules governing deceptive communications.
In an agreement to settle prior to litigation then pending in the United States District Court before the Northern District of Illinois, the government expressly acknowledged that "[t]here have been no findings or admissions of wrongdoing or liability by [Kevin Trudeau]." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.) "Trudeau was found guilty of false advertising. Mr. Trudeau is charging that the FTC—again, to use the FTC's own articulated standard—given the "net impression" in its press release that Mr. Trudeau has been found guilty of wrongdoing, is a habitual false advertiser, and was ordered to pay a fine. According to the suits, these are blatant falsehoods, which additionally rob Mr. Trudeau of any benefit of the settlement agreement. On February 16, 2005, Mr." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.) |
 "Kevin Trudeau Sues Federal Trade Commission for "False Advertising"
National Consumer Advocate and FTC Critic Seeks End to Ongoing Retaliation
Chicago, February 28, 2005, Kevin Trudeau, an author who is fast becoming one of the nation's leading consumer activists, filed today two separate suits against the United States government charging the Federal Trade Commission with publishing false and misleading information.
Mr. Trudeau is suing the FTC for very much the same reason that the FTC sues people for, in essence, a form of false advertising."- Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.) |
 "Five Lawsuits Filed Against Splenda; Johnson & Johnson Under Fire Concerning false advertising and Misleading Consumers about Splenda." Press release from the Truth about Splenda campaign, January 27, 2005. http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT= 109&STORY=/www/story/01-27-2005/0002908706&EDATE.
-. "The Sweet Truth about Sugar Substitutes," October 30, 2003.
Rael, Shelley. "Artificial Sweeteners: What's Out There?" EHPP Nutrition Notes Newsletter 1, no. 3
(2000). http://ehpp.unm.edu/ListServe3.htm. Reitz, David Oliver. "The National Soft Drink Association." Dorway.com. http://www."- Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.) |
 "Some other simple shopping rules on my list: no synthetic "fragrance," no estrogenic ingredients such as parabens or placenta, and no false advertising claims of "pure and gentle" products that may be contaminated with carcinogens. These few guidelines, unfortunately, eliminate many personal care products on the shelves of mainstream stores.
I don't think of it as a boycott, exactly — more like a "girlcott," which was another idea offered by Devra Davis. "Boycotts mean saying no. Girlcotts mean yes," Dr. Davis explained. "- Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.) |
 "When the tricks of the trade are no longer used for advantage, the advantage will be sought in even more false advertising claims.
Television networks could use a committee of medical advisors to review all ads for truthfulness. That will not happen. I say so knowing that medical journals are run by physicians who are far more aware of these problems than are television executives, and they will not even monitor advertising claims. The British Medical Journal's official policy on advertisements is an embarrassment (see Box #7-3, British Medical Journal Policy on Advertisements)."- Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.) |
 "In March 1999, the FTC issued a notice to rescind the Guides for the Dog and Cat Food Industry, which had empowered this organization to guard againsr false advertising by pet food companies. In October 1999, the FTC announced that Section 241 had been rescinded. Among other things, Section 241 covers "misleading dog or cat food in any material respect. Misrepresenting that dog and cat food is fit for human consumption. Making false statements about the conduct or the quality of a competitor's product."- Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.) |
 "In the middle of the Great Depression, muckraking journalists, following in the tradition of Upton Sinclair, mounted a national movement against false advertising and toxic food. The incidence of arsenic poisoning in the general population, and specifically the level of poisoning of babies and children, was one of several national issues covered by the muckrakers. A massive public education program finally exerted some impact on the arsenic lobby and the big growers."- Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.) "Based on historical and modern evidence, we know who will suffer from false advertising, resistance problems, and the low yields, crop failures, and lawsuits that result from genetic manipulation. In all the debacles of chemical agriculture since the mid-1800s, it was the farmers who went bankrupt from using defective and worthless fertilizers and pesticides—not the chemical corporations." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.) |
 "In March 2004, Wyeth was in trouble with the FDA over Effexor, accused of making false advertising claims and failing to warn consumers of specific adverse reactions.31
Getting the Needle
Vaccines are the biggest of big business for the pharmaceutical multinationals. The goal of vaccine research in the developed world is to create one super-vaccine, which will contain DNA from a large number of viruses, parasites and bacteria. The vaccine, which would be
31 US FDA says Wyeth made false claims about Effexor. March 26, 2004. Reuters. time-released,32 would be given to newborn babies."- Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.) |
 "Half the battle today is the false advertising of psych drugs to treat chemical imbalances in the brain. A theory only with no clinical evidence, patients are put on mood-altering drugs at the whim of a psychiatrist or medical practitioner.
A friend of mine, also a nurse, was sent home recently from work because she was "acting erratically" and didn't seem to know where she was. After thorough medical testing, she found out that she has hypoglycemia. She had been suffering with that undetected condition on and off for 15 years."- Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.) |
 "You should not be surprised that 80 percent of industrial
sion Over Killing, filed a false advertising complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). "Animal Care Certified," it said, implies that the hens are treated with especially humane care,
certification merely attests that a company gives food and water to i caged hens.
which regulates advertising, did not formally rule on the complaint, it reportedly encouraged egg producers to make the change voluntarily. A spokesman
consumers. We say, let consumers make their own choice."- Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.) "Late in 2004, Merisant, the company that owns Equal, sued Splenda for misleading consumers with false advertising. Splenda, the suit argued, does not contain sugar, does not get its sweetness from sugar, and uses phosgene, a poison gas, in its chlorination process. The Sugar Asso- ciation, which represents producers of cane and beet sugar (sucrose), not only filed a similar suit, but also set up a Web site (www.truthabout-splenda.com) questioning the product's safety." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.) |
 "Distinguishing between sustainable tourism and false advertising, especially when we are booking hotels and tours ahead of time, can be a quagmire of confusion. But there are a variety of certification programs that can help us make wise decisions. Some programs, such as Costa Rica's Certification for Sustainable Tourism, focus on environmental standards. Others, such as Fair Trade in Tourism South Africa, monitor social and economic aspects like wages and working conditions. How do we know which standards a particular program gives priority to?"- Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) |
 "The FTC regulates advertising in America, focusing largely on false advertising and misleading statements (in representation or omission of facts deemed to be material).72 The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) share jurisdiction over claims made by food manufacturers. The FTC primarily regulates food advertising, while the FDA regulates labeling. The FTC may issue a temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction for suspected violation of its regulation."- Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen, Food Fight (Get the book.) |
 "Healthy Greens and other food supplements by agreeing to pay $600,000, divided equally, to three different health organizations.3 This was a small price for the company to pay, considering the ultimate revenues that were generated by the exploding nutrient supplement market.
FOCUS ON FAT
The focus on individual nutrients instead of whole foods has become commonplace in the past two decades, and part of the blame can be put on our 1982 report."- T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.) |
| "Nobody is more vulnerable to the almost always false advertising in medicine and the many useless and often harmful therapies than a seriously ill person. As the former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, Marcia Angell, puts it in her new book, The Truth About The Drug Companies, "If prescription drugs are so good, why do they need to be pushed so hard? The answer is that good drugs don't have to be promoted very much. A genuinely important drug.. .sells itself." - Helke Ferrie, Dispatches From the War Zone of Environmental Health (Get the book.) |
| "Operation Cure All allows the pharmaceutical industry to produce their deceptive and false advertising, while at the same time setting strict rules as to what is truthful, substantiated, and allowable in advertising for natural health products. One rule is the prohibition on saying that a natural product does anything relating to the prevention or curing of a disease. Not only are you prohibited from making such a statement, even if it is true; you are forbidden to imply such a claim." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.) |
| "Instead of guns and bombs, this war is waged with false advertising on a scale beyond imagining. Canada's Health Protection Branch (an oxymoron if ever there was one) in conjunction with the Food Biotechnology Communications Network puts out these little pamphlets informing us that the common soil bacterium, Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), has been "used for years as an insecticidal spray in organic farming"." - Helke Ferrie, Dispatches From the War Zone of Environmental Health (Get the book.) |
| "Trudeau was found guilty of false advertising.
Mr. Trudeau is charging that the FTC again, to use the FTC's own articulated standard given the "net impression" in its press release that Mr. Trudeau has been found guilty of wrongdoing, is a habitual false advertiser, and was ordered to pay a fine. According to the suits, these are blatant falsehoods, which additionally rob Mr. Trudeau of any benefit of the settlement agreement.
On February 16, 2005, Mr." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.) "Trudeau is suing the FTC for very much the same reason that the FTC sues people for, in essence, a form of false advertising. According to the suits, the FTC has, by its own standards, committed a flagrant violation of the rules governing deceptive communications. In an agreement to settle prior to litigation then pending in the United States District Court before the Northern District of Illinois, the government expressly acknowledged that "[t]here have been no findings or admissions of wrongdoing or liability by [Kevin Trudeau]." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.) |
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