Talk:Kevin Trudeau

References

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What's up with the references section? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.28.59.69 (talk • contribs)

These edits seem to have screwed it up. I've reverted those sections to how they were before the changes. -- Consumed Crustacean (talk) 19:16, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

"No proof of claims" closing

The last three sentences of the "No proof of claims" section looks unclear and tacked-on to me. It starts with, "This statement is false." Well, which statement? The previous sentence refers to a supposedly nonexistent study that Trudeau claims exists. Is it the statement that it is "nonexistent" or the statement that it exists that is false? I read the big debate in the archives here[7] where it talks about the University of Calgary study, but I am still unclear how much of it is real. It certainly looks like at the very least like Trudeau's claim is misleading, if not outright false. The last sentence in that section says, "The source is listed below." Where is it listed? Why not link to it normally? I think those last three sentences should either be fixed or deleted. The paragraph works fine without them. -- HiEv 19:51, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Basically it amounts to vandalism. Someone found it necessary to include state which were utterly inaccurate.

This statement is false. Dr. Youngsoo Kim was under contract with the University of Calgary and he did indeed do a 20 year study on diabetes and natural ways to cure them under the authority of the University. The source is listed below.

Dr. Kim was never under contract with UofC and he himself was not part of the study. His own sites press releases states that the compounds being studied in relation to diabetic research were licensed to Eastwood Bio-Medical Research Inc (Kim's company). UofC officials have denied that there have ever been clinical trials. In fact Kim claims that he marketed Eleotin/Diabeticine/Diamaxol/whatever it is this week because the UofC research said they cured diabetes (again his claim which UofC denies). Those compounds aren't even in Diamaxol.

So I have removed what amounts to vandalism. Due to the increased amounts of it, I believe that edits should not be allowed to the article by unregistered users. TheDevilYouKnow 00:56, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

I agree, this page probably needs to be protected. Somebody is out to fight the pharmaceutical/FDA conspiracy by erasing Trudeau's criminal history from Wikipedia.Jermor 05:36, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

I agree that the article should be protected from unregistered users. I thought we had a decent article 6-8 months ago. The article I read today doesn't seem to have even one sentence that hasn't been messed with. Some of the criticism sections don't even contain criticisms anymore. I'd edit it again but I'm getting tired of rewriting this article only to see unregistered users remove my edits. ZZYZX 14:34, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Why rewrite when you can revert? - RoyBoy ⁸⁰⁰ 06:48, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Encyclopedia or message to the reader

Please remember that you are editing an online encyclopedia and not writing directly to the reader. Avoid phrases such as a "whether or not YOU" or "you should know". TheDevilYouKnow 18:31, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Category Removal

I find it odd that the Category: Quackery was removed but others such as Fraudsters and Confidence tricksters were left. Without a quality explanation of why this one should be removed and not the others I see no reasoning behind the edit. I will await such an explanation and will consider putting it back within the next couple of days. TheDevilYouKnow 04:24, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Aparently, the category was removed because it was deleted: Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_December_11#Category:Quackery Deli nk 16:53, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

AIDS dissident

" The book claims that AZT, in particular, can be linked to causing AIDS."

From the Wikipedia article on his book... sounds like classic Peter Duesberg. I think he should be categorized as "AIDS dissident".— Preceding unsigned comment added by LinkinPark (talk • contribs) 00:40, January 5, 2007 (UTC)

POV

new: I've marked this article as not being neutral because it is vagrantly biased against mister Trudeau. I don't support him or Scientology myself, but I found it kind of startling to read this article. As mentioned, the first sentence reads 'Kevin Mark Trudeau (born February 6, 1963) is a television infomercial spokesperson[1] and convicted felon[2] who grew up in Lynn, Massachusetts, USA', a rediculous introduction with clear bias intended to sway the reader from trusting Trudeau. The remaining 'chapters' go on to reveal scandal, arrests and controversy. Nowhere is any support offered for his ideas, leaving the picture that he is just a wildly sociapathic liar running rampant on infomercial streets selling twigs to americans as miracle cures.

Again, I don't support or condemn the man because frankly I don't know enough about him. Reading this article has only informed me that people on wikipedia apparently hate him. To put this in contrast, look at the beginning statements of L Ron Hubbard's page, which say:

Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (13 March 1911 – 24 January 1986), better known as L. Ron Hubbard, was an American pulp fiction[1][2] and science fiction[3] writer and founder of Dianetics and Scientology. In 2006, Guinness World Records declared Hubbard the world's most published and most translated author, having published 1,084 fiction and non-fiction works that have been translated into 71 languages.[4][5]

A controversial public figure, many details of Hubbard's life are contentious. The Church of Scientology official biographies present Hubbard as "larger than life, attracted to people, liked by people, dynamic, charismatic and immensely capable in a dozen fields".[6] However, the Church's account of Hubbard's life has changed over time, with editions of the biographical account published over the years differing from each other.[7]

Biographies of Hubbard by independent journalists and accounts by former Scientologists paint a much less flattering, and often highly critical, picture of Hubbard and in many cases contradict the material presented by the Church.[8][9][1]

Considering the controversy surrounding the subject of this article, it doesn't seem strange at all to start the article with his criminal convictions and legal troubles with the FCC. His claim to fame, the only reason why he rates and article is his success as a salesmen of dubious and unsubstantiated cures. How does one separate this from his legal issues. It's as relevant as his success from what I can see.Mysteryquest 08:46, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

That is what neutrality looks like.

I have to agree that the mention of him being a convicted felon within the first sentence is something I'm not too crazy about. However, there has already been considerable discussion and even some colorful debates on its inclusion (please read through the archives). As to the support of his ideas that too has been discussed time and time again. Unfortunately, most of his career and practices and the informational sources about them is rather negative. What support information were you referring to? Others have cried foul without any effort to actually include sourceable information or offer anything substantial beyond consistently complaining about the POV and slapping the NPOV tag up again. Others still have been uable to offer anything beyond testimonials and their own opinions, or support propaganda while claiming the other editors or Wikipedia as a whole to be a propaganda machine. You are invited to edit the article or offer discussion about the inclusion of information beforehand if you so choose.

As this seems to be yet another also-ran complaint about the article's neutrality without any bit of credible information (basically whining that it paints as true picture no matter how ugly), I'm removing the NPOV tag. Again, please see the discussion archives or offer something substantial. TheDevilYouKnow 04:56, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

old: I've marked this article as being one that does not meet the neutrality standards. This article is filled with scare and weasel words, much like the article on Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You To Know About. If anyone would like to help me out in cutting down on those, please do so. Beginning 21:49, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

To add to that, I've also found that a lot of the information is repetitious, including sentences found in multiple parts of the article. Can we maybe cut down on some of that, especially due to the size of the article (30kb at the moment)? Beginning 22:17, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

It really depends. Perhaps you could give some specific examples. The beginning of the article is simply a summary while sections go more in depth. This article is as neutral as it will ever get. That is unless those who keep sticking in i there can offer some type of factual information with citations which moves it the other way. Please read through the archives and all the past discussions (most from people wanting testimonials, anecdotes, and personal views injected into the article) to see that the NPOV debate has been beaten to death. Also I would like to add that the citation request in reference to his claims of being "attacked" by a particular interviwer or program would have to come from a transcript or video of his infomercials (off the top of my head the one featuring Tammy Faye where he claimed to have been attacked during his Good Morning America interview though ABC lists no appearance). Trudeau has gone to great lengths to remove the infomercial videos from his sites. Most media links at kevinfightsback.com don't even work. TheDevilYouKnow 06:28, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Why is the first thing said is that he is a convicted felon? Should we start all peoples' Wikipedia entries charged with a crime with the crime they were convicted of comitting? For example, why doesn't President George W. Bush's entry say "George Walker Bush (born 6 July 1946) is a convicted drunk driver, and the 43rd and current president of the United States, inaugurated on 20 January 2001 and re-inaugurated on 20 January 2005."

Firstly, the GWB makes no mention of a conviction for DWI or DUI. Now on to Trudeau. There was a lot of discussion (please read through it) and quite a bit of debate as to whether or not "convicted felon" should appear in the first sentence (latest dealt with referencing though it appears later in the article). As such it was apparently agreed that it would remain. Whether or not it should be listed first is another matter. I'm sure that's another debate for another time. Please read the article history too as it may give you some clues as to how it won first mention (i.e. people vandalizing it with "scam-artist", "wonderful man", "dirt-bag", etc.) TheDevilYouKnow 18:38, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, as principle, the DUI conviction will be added to George W. Bush's Wikipedia under neutrality until this is changed to something less bias against Trudeau. I'm also going to look up other notable figures that were convicted of a crime and add it to the first sentence of that person's Wikipedia. I figure if this is the standard we take with Trudeau; we must hold it to everyone. FreakOut GiveIn 21:58, 11 March 2007 (UTC) ^^^ Yes, because Kevin Trudeau's honor should be defended much more than our presidents.

Mention was made of this article's bias against Mr. Trudeau, and that it portrays him as a pathological liar going around selling twigs to American consumers. Well, could it be that this is in fact, the truth? One thing not elaborated in the IPT Pool Tour section of his page is that Trudeau kept holding high entry fee qualifiers to this tour, after an incident where he did not pay prize funds, and also kept insisting that the normal tournament schedule was going to be adhered to. The remaining tournaments were cancelled, effectively ending any chance the qualifiers had of competing on the tour for that year. After legal threats from the players, he has decided to attempt to pay the prize funds. He insists that he is trying to obtain new sponsors, to continue the tour. If that is true, the latter qualifiers will have a chance at a a retun on their entry fee. If no more tournaments are held, and Trudeau keeps the qualifier money, it will in effect be stealing from them. Trudeau has been caught in many lies by the billiard industry. He point blank told the billiard industry he would fund the IPT out of pocket for two years, then almost immediately started having payout problems. Russ Chewning

Let’s stop for a minute and ask ourselves why Kevin Trudeau is even notable. The answer is because he’s a huckster. As to whether his criminal record should be brought up in the first paragraph of the article, that should be a no-brainer. — NRen2k5 12:28, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

. His latest series of infomercials features his book Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You To Know About . After criticism [by whom?] that the book did not contain any natural cures promised in his infomercials - Trudeau claims [when? where? source?] that he was not able to include them because of threats from the Federal Trade Commission - Trudeau released an updated version of the original book.

Greenstar3000 01:30, 23 August 2007 (UTC)greenstar3000Greenstar3000 01:30, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

SO why didn't you put a citation request into that section of the article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.28.59.69 (talk) 03:38, August 25, 2007 (UTC)

I know only too well what you're talking about, but I ended up getting blocked when I tried to insert positive statements about Kevin Trudeau to counteract it... (Yes, I'm unblocked now, the block only lasted for a day.) --Luigifan 11:08, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Is there any positive information about Trudeau from reliable sources as defined by Wikipedia? I would love to see it. And I agree, he's famous or notable because he is a huckster, two felony convictions, one for stealing from his own customers -- yes he posed as a doctor--, but that was to steal from his own customers, numerous civil fines by numerous jurisdictions for misleading infomercials, a 2.5 million dollar settlement with the FTC and the only person ever to be banned from doing infomericials by the FTC, turning to publishing, so it would seem, in order to exploit the one loophole in the FTC ban. If there is positive information from reliable sources, I would be curious to see it. Please come forth with it.Mysteryquest (talk) 07:02, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Addition to "no basis" in research removed

I removed the addition made by 203.217.44.228 to the sub-section titled "no basis in research" for numerous reasons. The first and most obvious of course are the spelling and grammatical errors. While those could have been fixed further reading revealed that evidence of other readers opinions was not cited. The addition also included a conspiracy theory entry (the hidden evidence of known to quacks but not the mainstream claim). It also included factual errors about about real doctors and well known quacks who lack the medical credentials they claim.

Dr. Robert O. Young is quack who claims medical and research credentials. His credentials "M.S. Nutrition" (1993); "D.Sc. Science" (1995); "Ph.D., Nutrition" (1997); and "N.D. (Naturopathic Doctor" (1999) were issued by the American Holistic College of Nutrition in Birmingham Alabama, which is a nonaccredited correspondence school (diploma mill). Despite his claims no articles authored by him have ever been published in a recognized scientific journal.

Alexis Carrel - proved by experiment that cells can be kept in a healthy state by providing adequate nutrient and water - This is well known and didn't require notable mention and there's no citation of any experiments by Carrel. Carrel is best known for proving that organs and tissues could be kept in cold storage for long periods for later transplantation.

Harry Goldblatt This is one where someone interpreted his research and research by Dr. Otto Heinrich Warburg and attributed quotes to them which do not appear in their research papers. Golblatt's research (Induced Malignancy in Cells from Rat Myocardium Subjected to Intermittent Aanerobiosis During Long Propagation in Vitro, JEM 1953). These statements are often used by quacks to promote questionable oxygen therapies. The quote by Goldblatt, "Lack of oxygen clearly plays a major role in causing cells to become cancerous." ~Dr. Harry Goldblatt, (Journal of Experimental Medicine) is sometimes dated 1953. The article I listed earlier is the only one dated 1953 in the JEM database.

The rest involving lifestyle changes is also well known. Despite what Trudeau and other questionable characters would like you to believe, lifestyles of the patients is a concern of doctors and is hammered into them during their schooling and continued education. TheDevilYouKnow 19:39, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

I agree. It doesn't do very much good when the only thing supporters have to offer is twisted facts. This may very well be why supporters believe him, but attempting to make it sound like these are legit source of information is laughable. Again, his supporter likely believe this nonsense to be true and that may very well need to be mentioned but trying to do the way so many have tried is unbelievable. If such a section could be added without stepping over the lines of discussing the merits of Trudeau's theories I would likely accept its addition. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.246.252.138 (talk • contribs)

It is NOT wikipedias' place to ddiiscuss whether or not supporters of Mr. Trudaue is "twissting" facts we shhould report what is given by the primary-- and seconndary suorces as given without adding our own originil know to it okay?Smith Jones 01:49, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Citation requests

I noticed a HUGE increase in the number of citation requests in this article. Hell it seems that someone (likely his supporters) are requesting citations at the end of almost EVERY SINGLE sentence. Many of these require a link to video footage of the various versions of his infomercials. However, they have been removed from NaturalCures.com and the links are broken at KevinFightsBack.com (other sites have been taken down). If anyone is able to find such footage and it could be uploaded to say YouTube it would be of great help. Interviews featuring Trudeau would also be good. These could likely be placed in their own section without needed to cite them every other sentence.

Also does anyone know if any interviewer or anyone as ever requested to see the police report from the supposed incident with GMA (Trudeau claims he had to call the police and have them removed)? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.28.59.69 (talk • contribs).

i am the one who MADE one of the cittation reguests butr that was only one not a HUGE request. i wil try to look for you things now Smith Jones 18:21, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

I have removed a citation request concerning Trudeau's claims that he was "attacked" or "ambushed" by the news media (notably GMA) and that he later tried to gain sympathy from readers of his newsletter. The request for citation was not necessary. If one were to simply look at the very next paragraph, they would find a reference link to the March 2005 newsletter. On the very FIRST page it reads "ABC's Good Morning America Attacks Me!". The story is also reprinted in the updated version of Natural Cures on page 443 in the Chapter titled "Free Bonus Material: Newsletter Articles". TheDevilYouKnow 06:06, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

It seems that a particular anonymous editor believes that the ref link does not specific use of the word "ambush" (rather than a description of it) it warrants further citation. As such to satisfy this I have removed the word "ambush" from Trudeau's claims. It now simply noted his claims to have been "attacked". This of course is despite the fact that descriptions are sprinkled throughout his Natural Cures book and newsltters. Hopefully, if archived footage of his infomercials is found where this claim is made as well as how these stories are chronicled in his newsletter, it can be used for ref link and the word "ambush" can be re-inserted. TheDevilYouKnow 07:10, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Background info

Can someone add background info on Trudeau: where he was born, his education, etc.

He was born February 6, 1963 in Lynn, Massachusetts, USA. It's right there in the first sentence. If you think there should be more you could always do a little research and start writing. Too many people are treating the discussion section like a place to request/demand that someone else do the actual work. TheDevilYouKnow 01:53, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Lock it up already

The amount and frequency of vandalism is getting to be a bit much. The unsourced quack claims and utterly horrific grammar of these vandals has gone from laughable to flat out annoying. I'd like to see this article protected from unregistered users. Thoughts? TheDevilYouKnow 04:57, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

the purpose of locking i st top revent vandlaism not to prevent poeple that you dont agree with ({the "quakcs")) from contributing to the artice. if you have a rpoblem with their submissions then revert hem dont try to use the lock function as thought control. Smith Jones 04:20, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Quack claims was an example not the only example of vandalism. However, much unsourced quackery has found its way into the vandals additions. TheDevilYouKnow 21:39, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

AGAAIN we should try to stop the vdanlism without causing the loding because the lock feautre is only used when the admin deicdes that the article needs to be protected for a while. most articles are vandalized but the key is to keep the faith and keeping working to prevent the articles and thent ry to talk to the vandals to seee if you can stop them. flipping out and them and locking the article causes chaos aqnd nonsense throughout wikipedia and prevent stha estalbished rules from being enforced, which stops the purpose of having an article that "anybody can edit". you should at least give it a few more days before suggesting that he aritcle be locked, okay??? Smith Jones 23:29, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

TheDevilYouKnow, get thee to WP:RFPP for all your locking needs. Bi 20:19, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Trudeau is the Devil. My aunt tried his cures for cancer, thinking they would help. She died. Thanks Kevin Trudeau. Maybe if you would have wrote in your book "go to the hospital where real professionals can help you" she might be alive today. Dickhole. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.67.51.51 (talk) 20:46, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Removal of additions to criticisms

I removed an addition by 68.113.119.220 which read "but this must be a matter of opinion dealing with the word "few" as the book contains treatments and/or cures to 53 illnesses on pages 345-356 along with more information throughout the book" as it gives his opinion on why the critics made such remarks. The treatments and cures listed are simply duplications. Candida cleanse is listed NUMEROUS times along with chelation therapies, and colonics. The chapter also contains common sense and a myriad of also ran (for years) quack claims made by numerous others which Trudeau claims to be REVEALING. I've read the book. It's really nothing more than the same old also-ran quackery simply cobbled together with some misinformation from recent events for good measure. Sprinkle in some misunderstanding of the FDA approval process and claims of nonexistent censorship while championing the First Amendment and you've got yourself a Trudeau book. TheDevilYouKnow 01:28, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

"Convicted felon"

I'm baffled by Bridge & Tunnel's insistence, in this article and elsewhere, that the introductory sentence should only be a "list of accomplishments" and should only mention the subject in a positive light. Since when did the introductory sentence become exempt from WP:NPOV? Bi 20:16, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps Bridge & Tunnel needs to actually read the NPOV policy and FAQ. For one it should not be used as grounds for outright deletion of text. Rather it is meant as a means to engage in discussion and edit the content (if necessary) accordingly. TheDevilYouKnow 22:24, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Listing "convicted felon" as one of the attributes of a person is a personal attack. It's totally unencyclopedic. Just write a sentence that says "Trudea was convicted of..." whatever he was convicted for. Bridge & Tunnel 23:49, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

It is not a personal attack. It is a factual statement supported and cited in the article. Even the argument of letting the facts speak for themselves (covered under the NPOV policy) does not come into play as it does not present an opinion based on facts. It is also not an expression of opinion. I have always felt that the inclusion of his conviction in the first paragraph is not necessary as it is covered extensively. Beyond trimming the size of this article there isn't much more support I can offer for its removal. This is a subject that has already been debated up and down and left and right. TheDevilYouKnow 00:45, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

It's misleading and blatantly looks like an editor stuck it in there simply to attack the person. It really looks silly and is unencyclopedic. "Convicted felon" could mean anything from rapist to simply a tax avoider or something as benign as being caught with a bag of cocaine. At least say "convicted tax avoider" or whatever it is that he was convicted of. Clarity is better than lack of clarity. Bridge & Tunnel 03:44, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Oh great, so it's POV because it "looks" to me like a POV? Isn't it great to be able to argue independently from facts?

Now, Trudeau was convicted of credit card fraud, misleading advertising, and goodness knows what else. If you actually think it might be good include all that information (as is, with no positive spin whatsoever) in the opening sentence, I may be persuaded to make a similar change to the Frank R. Wallace article. If not, you're just using ad hoc argumentation. Bi 04:20, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

I don't see why not. It makes sense to list the things that he was convicted of instead of just saying "convicted felon" which looks clearly like a person attack. Bridge & Tunnel 04:23, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Actually Trudeau was convicted of larceny (he posed as a doctor to deposit false checks and credit card fraud). There was no conviction due to his misleading the public. Those cases all ended in settlements. The conviction(s) should not be listed in the first paragraph (or the summary section) as they are detailed in the rest of the article. The NPOV tag is used too often by people that would readers not to know about Trudeau according to facts but rather according to Trudeau and his supporters. Unfortunately B&T your solution would do more harm than good. Seriously, is it better to say that he is a convicted felon (which invites the reader to continue on and learn about his legal problems) or to state flat out that he was convicted of larceny? TheDevilYouKnow 16:37, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

I think it's much better to say straight out he was convicted for larceny early in his career. Just labeling someone a "convicted felon" brings up images of being a rapist or something. It's unnecessarily unclear. Just a couple more words clears it up. Besides it's totally unencyclopedic. Can you imagine an Encyclopedia Britannica article listing "convicted felon" in an article about a person as one of a person's characteristics? Lots of people have committed crimes at sometime in their lives. Saying "convicted felon" in the first sentence is an obvious attempt to brand someone. And it's silly. It's laughable when you see it. It really is. I'm not trying to defend the guy. I really don't know anything about him. But just take a step back and look at how unencyclopedic and silly and vengeful it looks. But then Wikipedia is a silly encylcopedia that no one takes seriously anyway, so take my advice or don't. Bridge & Tunnel 04:18, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

I have to agree. It does invite the reader to continue reading the rest of the article. Now, every article is a bit different and this would not hold true for others. However, when you consider that the very next section relates to KT's criminal past it work here. Given that this section sets the timeline for the major events covered in the article it's not going anywhere anytime soon. This is because the major events involving KT usually directly coincide with his criminal past or legal issues. Now Bridge & Tunnel, you have tried to attack this by removing it outright, protesting its inclusion, both based on neutrality, and now you're trying to claiming it's unencyclopedic based on what you believe others will assume. Assuming the reader will immediately start imagining instances of rape or murder is just plain silly. I've looked at your other contributions involving similar items and they have all resulted in reverts or edits because of duplication. The last item would follow what I mentioned earlier with the criminal history section directly following the summary. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.252.123.131 (talk) 15:05, 12 April 2007 (UTC).

At first I was a bit adverse woward the use of the term "convicted felon" in the opening, but I have to say that overall I see no problem with it. We know that (a) the statement is true, (b) his criminal history is a very significant part of his biography, and (c) the term itself is accurate and objective. The only possible problem I could see is that "convicted felon" is a fairly ambiguous term, as the felonies one can commit are numerous and varied. I would prefer if there were a single term that could be used to describe his felonies, but to my knowledge there isn't, so, as far as I see it, "convicted felon" is the best we can do, and certainly not as bad as, say, excluding the information from the opening all together. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 96.224.63.131 (talk) 07:08, 29 April 2007 (UTC).

I'll try a new wording that is more specific. WLU 16:06, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Treatment plans

I have made a recent edit to this section because I believe it should be noted that there are treatment plans for 53 diseases in the book. If you don't like how I worded it, reword it, but do not remove the note in it's entirety please. Perhaps the section should make it clearer about the difference in the number of treatment plans and the number of diseases that can be treated along with the treatment plans. I just thought it was important to note. 68.113.119.220 05:17, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

I reworded it; as far as I know the second edition does have the treatment protocols the first edition lacked. I also moved your comments to the bottom of the page, where they are supposed to be posted. WLU 16:06, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

French American

What's required to put someone in the category of French American? Just the last name, self-identification? WLU 12:57, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Apparently the person who contributed that little bit forget to read the part about Kevin Trudeau being ADOPTED! TheDevilYouKnow 03:20, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Article needs to go on diet

This is an article about Kevin Trudeau. However, there seems to be far to much information about his Natural Cures book that should probably be moved to the article about the book. TheDevilYouKnow 20:49, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Trudeau's research

Any claims of travels by Trudeau to "witness" supposed cures cannot be considered by any means research into the cures themselves. 1.) Trudeau lacks the training to validate any claiming or scrutinize evidence. 2.) Trudeau is quick to rely HEAVILY on testimonials rather than scientific evidence. By the way anecdotal evidence is an oxymoron! 3.) Trudeau's own statements such as that all the cancer patients he's "examined" have acidic bodies should be proof enough that he's not credible.
Too many families have been duped by evidence from these quacks claiming to cure everything from an ass rash to cancer. Even one claims to know the exact cause and cure for cancer and other diseases. There's more than a dozen of these theories thrown around by Trudeau everyday. There's no reasearch just reprinted re-versionings of the same tired old garbage that can easily be proven false within minutes.

you see it doesn't matter what you think that Trudeau is saying and doig h e is still a legitimaete member of the american MEdical Community and no one is entitled to prove his research false on the WIkiipedia since this is a full and unbaised source. I understand that you are trying your best but this article will not be imrpoved if you insert drug company propaganda so I want to suggest politely that you stick with the facts instead of making foolish personal attacks. Thanky ou for your time. Smith Jones 03:59, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Hello, friend. I am a rocket scientist, professional physician, and expert Formula 1 driver. -- Consumed Crustacean (talk) 08:09, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

completley irrelvent unless you have published and peer-reviewed workds then your opinions are wrorth shit on Wikipedia.

Yes. -- Consumed Crustacean (talk) 19:25, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

then linkt to them Smith Jones 21:28, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

I was agreeing with your point, not stating that I have peer reviewed works to link to. -- Consumed Crustacean (talk) 00:53, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

okay thank you for your agreement. Smith Jones 00:41, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

(((SORRY ABOUT THE SPACE I JUST WANED TO get this in before the bitching about ipt and links takes over averhything. Smith Jones 00:41, 25 June 2007 (UTC))

International Pool Tour

I'm not sure what a "Russbot" is, whether it is a person or an automatic computer function. However, Russbot removed 19 referenced links that I inserted in the IPT segment of comments made by pool players on their Player Bio about what they thought about the IPT and replaced it with one link of the IPT tour website. I posted the 19 references because each one of these 19 pool players had comments about the IPT tour as a whole to enhance the comment about how the pool players felt about the IPT tour. I do not think it was proper to remove them as they verfied the statement. In fact, the pool players who did compete in the IPT were surprised and excited about the first-class venue and stated so on their player bios. I think the 19 reference links belong, which verify the one sentence that the pool players were genuinely surprised and happy about the first-class venues. Maybe I should mention each pool player by name and insert their 19 comments, which will make the IPT section very, very, very large. Removing 19 referenced links to the one-and-only sentence and replacing it with one link was in poor taste. It seems the editors of this article are prejudiced. I was stating FACT and referencing the FACT with 19 references. Now I have inserted 19 comments as opposed to 19 reference links to enhance the one sentence. RailbirdJAM 09:25, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

OK, each reference did not require it's own unique edit. Also the IPT section of this article is just that a SECTION. Your contributions to the article have been reverted or condense because of a couple of reasons. The first of which is that it is not necessary to provide a reference link to each player. This amounts to nothing more than the promotions of the players while not really adding anything to the article or section(s). The additional information you added recently to the section regarding Trudeau's link to the IPT was WAAAAAY overboard. This article is about Trudeau. Sections within the article should be summarized. In other words a section should not be an entire article in an of itself. If you wish to edit or create an IPT article you are more than welcome to do so. If you wish to then add a link to that article to the section you are also welcome to do that too. TheDevilYouKnow 20:58, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

I initially had only references. You deleted them. That is when I added the comments -- because you deleted the references. I, therefore, elaborated the references since you do not understand why the references were there in the first place.

This has nothing to do with the promotion of the players. You have a prejudicial opinion and think others do not matter. I initially summarized and inserted links. You deleted all the linked references twice.

Furthermore you screwed up reference nos. 21 and 22 which are not the proper reference format.

RailbirdJAM 00:42, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

I initially linked only references to appear as only numbers at the end of the paragraph.

You deleted all of the numbered references. Again, I inserted the references comments after you deleted the numbers. The numbers only took up one line. You deleted them all. Therefore, I elaborated each reference number for clarity about Kevin Trudeau, the topic of this article. RailbirdJAM

The article is about Kevin Trudeau. The amount of information you included in IPT section is just plain overkill. Utilizing article link or "see also" and creating a bridge beyond the IPT section and the International Pool Tour. It's more about the IPT itself and less about Trudeau. Again overkill. If someone else doesn't beat me to it, or chimes in with their own opinions, I likely make the changes (linking or see also) myself if time permits. TheDevilYouKnow 21:40, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Holy cow! Yeah, I'd say overkill too. There seems to be a lot of overly-detailed info about the International Pool Tour itself. This is definitely something that would benefit other pool related articles but is too much for an article about Kevin Trudeau. It reads like something someone just copied and pasted in without being editted. Also I have checked through the history. Why so many edits? Does it take 10 or more to add each sentence?

RailbirdJAM, when I read through your contributions they all seem to be pool realted. Tournaments, players, etc. I have too wonder if you a simply using the part of the KT article to promote pool and players. I noticed the many many reference links to EACH INDIVIDUALS PLAYER BIOS solely as a means to cite a statement about the I.P.T. Come on! Again, it feels more like you are just using THIS article as a means to promoted pool related stuff. While your contribs are welcome it's not necessary to include such detailed information about the tournament. I have to agree with TDYK. The section needs trimming (links to every players bio don't belong here as an example) and it should include a see also or "for more information" link to the I.P.T. article. My advice would be to check out Wikipedia: Summary Style. I'm also curious as to why you haven't made such edits to the I.P.T. article? 70.246.253.130 02:43, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your stated opinions about my contributions to the Kevin Trudeau article. From reading the Trudeau article, there seems to be a great deal of effort made to contributions which are negative in nature. I mean, talk about overkill. Like it or not, one thing Trudeau did do, in fact, was invest several million dollars into pool, which was welcomed by pool players around the world. He instituted a dress code for pool players in the IPT. In past times, most pool players wore relaxed clothing and not formal suits and ties. Trudeau's contributions to pool as a sport was a godsend to pool players. Previously, before the IPT came to the fore, a first-place prize in a pool tournament might have been 15- or $20,000. Well, when the IPT came forth, there were first-place prizes of $200,000, $350,000, and $500,000, multi-million-dollar tournament purses. World-champion Filipino Francisco Bustamante won $70,000 for coming in third place at the IPT event in December of 2005. He, in fact, stated it was the most money he had ever won in pool in his life. Now, here's a world-class champion stating this, a champion who travels around the world to compete in professional pool. Yes, Trudeau's influence on pool was very, very, very, very, very, very big.

I am curious as to why you think I am trying to promote pool players by referencing their comments about Trudeau's contributions to pool as a sport because that, my friends, is exactly how they felt at the time.

Did either of the two responders to this talk section of the IPT even read the referenced links to the comments made by pool players about Kevin Trudeau?

Trudeau was a MAJOR influence on pool around the world, like it or not. It would seem prudent to state in the Trudeau article how his influence affected pool players around the world. I also inserted the Trudeau picture at the top of this article. So are you saying that by me doing so, that I am trying to promote Trudeau, as you say I am trying to promote pool players? I have every right to reference links to pool players' comments about Kevin Trudeau, just as you have every right to reference links to facts that pertain to Trudeau.

So while others continue to make what I read as "negative contributions" -- thus, the NEUTRALITY WARNING -- to this Trudeau article, I am making a positive contribution which seems to upset the negative contributors. You can't argue with the facts, and I have referenced these links to back up Trudeau's effect on pool players. If you are going to insert a section on the IPT, then be prepared to have it referenced. Trudeau did, in fact, have a strong effect on pool around the world with the IPT tour, and as the IPT founder, Trudeau instituted some changes which affected pool as a sport. The dress code was made at Trudeau's insistence. If players showed up not in suits and ties, they were disqualified from competing. 09:57, 25 June 2007 (UTC) &#91The previous unsigned comment was posted by RailbirdJAM (talk · contribs)]

What's with the overly excessive ref linking in the IPT article? I've made mention before how the section is more a copy and paste of what should actually be in the main IPT article. The refs seem to be in relation to the sentence "Many IPT members were thankful for Trudeau's vision when they came to the tournaments...". There are about 20 links with only a handful of them having any mention of KT. So we can avoid the POV and bias rhetoric the first link (Corey Deuel) makes no mention of KT!!! Is there something I'm missing? Why not link to the main Player Bio page as opposed to individuals? Quite frankly this section, once again, that others have already expressed issues with has become nothing more than a shameless promotion of the IPT, the players and "cue sports" in general with only vague references to KT. 70.246.255.226 00:38, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Neutrality and this dispute

It is interesting that there is a NEUTRALITY WARNING on the Trudeau article. I wonder who the contributors are who are making contributions which are viewed as not neutral. If you are trying to prevent me from making contributions to the IPT section about Trudeau's influence on pool as a sport, then I deem that it is very revealing who the contributors are who are continuing to post up non-neutral contributions. Just because I post up something that is not negative, then you want to have it removed, so that you can continue to post up negative crap on Trudeau. Sorry, but this is supposed to be a factual Wikipedia, not just negative contributions from people who don't like Trudeau. 09:57, 25 June 2007 (UTC) &#91The previous unsigned comment was posted by RailbirdJAM (talk · contribs)]

The neutrality of the article has absolutely NOTHING to do with this discussion. It has to do with the size and scope of your contribution. The fact that it very well could be considered an article article itself. That's the point. This article does not need links to EVERY player bio or overly detail infomation on every aspect of the tournment. Some form of external linking should have been used. Simply plopping it into the article overshadows the rest of the article. Relevant information can be contributed better. 70.246.253.130 14:10, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

The Neutrality Tag is NOT A WARNING. It was put there by another editor. It's simply there to state that an editor believes the article is biased on way or another. However, it's been slapped up there so many times it's not even funny. The simple fact is that most of the information about Trudeau and his life that can be sourced and cited is negative. Trudeau is a turd. You can dress him up in a nice suit and tie and put him on TV but he's still a world class turd. As someone wrote earlier, the neutrality is not the issue. Read through the discussion logs. You'll find a number of editors calling for summaries and trimmings. I would like to say thank you to user with the IP address 70.246.253.130 for the idea to use a "For more information about" type linking. TheDevilYouKnow 14:24, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Um, actually neutrality tags emphatically are warnings, to the reader that the article may not be trustworthy, and to editors that the article needs cleanup. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 22:28, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

If the Neutrality Tag is not a warning, but was placed on the Kevin Trudeau article by another editor, it would seem prudent that there are BIASED happenings in this article.

For anyone to object to a valid contribution with referenced links to the IPT section of the Trudeau article, referenced links about Trudeau in a section which was inserted in the Trudeau article pertaining to the IPT, the objection to these valid contributions with referenced links seem to me as biased.

Therefore, I must agree with the editor who initially placed the Neutrality Tag on the Trudeau article. It would seem, in fact, there is an existing bias that is taking place. I do not agree with the unidentified User "70.246.253.130" or TheDevilYouKnow's objection to my referenced contributions to the IPT section of the Trudeau article, references which directly pertain to Trudeau himself. RailbirdJAM 23:02, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

What does NEUTRALITY have to do with it? Absolutely nothing. There is NOTHING wrong with offering a summary section to include a SUMMARY of the information. However, you included numerous bio links (no which mention Trudeau) as a connection to IPT rather than Trudeau, overly in-depth information about each round or competition. The information bias is NOT the issue but the amount of relevant or direct versus indirect information you dumped into the article. It disrupts the flow of the article and detracts from the fact this is an encyclopedic article about Kevin Trudeau and NOT the IPT. I have also been reading through the various guidelines and consensus such as summary style, linking (relevancy, overlinking/clutter, etc) and others. I will be looking into how the information from your contributions which is not directly related to Trudeau (the indirect info and numerous player bio links) can be moved to the IPT article and how the section can be summarized. The section will then include a SEE ALSO or FOR MORE INFORMATION link to the IPT article. There they can read a more complete article about the players, competition and Trudeau's involvement. Wikipedia IS an encyclopedia. If you look up Napoleon in an encyclopedia (and wikipedia) you will find a SECTION about The Battle of Waterloo. That's right, The Battle of Waterloo, not an overly in depth section about Waterloo itself. TheDevilYouKnow 00:00, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Before you bring up the NPOV tag, bias and so forth again I honestly believe you should check your facts. It was placed there in response to another editor screaming bias. The editor turned out to be a sock puppet using standing on a soapbox and disrupting Wikipedia. Truthfully it should have been removed long ago as it was only ONE editor against a a popular consesus. Seriously I think we left it up because we were tired of constant vandals blanking the page or removing any an all negative info (criminal history) among other things and finishing off by throwing up a NPOV tag. Now that we have that out of the way. As it has been mentioned, this disucssion is not about bias or neutrality. It is simply about the section being waaaayy oversized and including information well beyond the context of the Kevin Trudeau article. 70.246.253.130 00:28, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Again, if you READ the referenced links, they are comments about Kevin Trudeau made by pool players. They are directly related to Kevin Trudeau more so than the IPT. This is an article about Kevin Trudeau. If his name is mentioned by pool players, then I think that it belongs in the Kevin Trudeau article. They are not talking about the IPT. They are talking about Kevin Trudeau. It is a shame that anyone would take such a stance on having Trudeau-related links inserted in the IPT section of the Trudeau article. I still am thinking there is bias that exists in this article if REFERENCED LINKS to TRUDEAU cannot be inserted in the IPT section. If there was not an IPT section in the Trudeau article, then there would be no need for this colloquy. Again, the referenced links are about TRUDEAU. This is my opinion, and I stand by it! RailbirdJAM 15:24, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

I sagree with RailroadJam, it is Wikipedia policy to, incase the information is disbuted, to leave it it in incase that is is proved right. It is better to leave the IPT tournament information in because it adsd to the article while taking it out would make the article worse. Smith Jones 20:30, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Railbird, of 19 reference only 8 mention Trudeau. 19 refs! Talk about overkill. I suggest you read up on some guidelines about links and article clutter. It soesn't matter if Kevin Trudeau is mentioned. Your contribution is oversized. There are half a dozen articles that can be found within 5 minutes but we don't right what amounts to an entire article in a section. They exist in this article as a SUMMARY (read the link I provided). The number of link (clutter) is not the only issue. Does the section need to include such overly detailed information about each round in the section? NO. I've already been looking into moving much of your contributions to the IPT article while keeping a section summary of around a couple of paragraphs with a link to the full IPT article.

Smith Jones, this issue is not whether the information is correct source or cited. And it's not that it should be removed. The issue is that it's overly long and too in-depth for a section and should be trimmed and summarized with relevant information that would add considerable value to the IPT article added there. See Wikipedia:Summary Style (right side of article give a PERFECT example) TheDevilYouKnow 22:52, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

I do not agree with you, "TheDevilYouKnow," and as such, I will continue to maintain my stance on the IPT section of the Kevin Trudeau article. I believe there is bias existing in this article, and anything that is contributed to the Trudeau article which is positive in nature seems to be criticized by you, "TheDevilYouKnow." I do not think it is fair that you have self-appointed yourself as to what you think is right and wrong about the quality of contributions to this article. I believe a higher authority on Wikipedia needs to be called in to arbitrate this situation. You seem to have a lot of bias, as evidenced by your contributions in the article as well as your comments on this Discussion Page.

Thank you, SmithJones, for speaking the truth! Your comments are appreciated. RailbirdJAM 23:38, 26 June 2007 (UTC) 23:36, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

you're welcome ralibird Anyway, I dont think that we need any arbirtration. Let try to come to a compromise first. The Devil You KNow said that 8 of the references were okay with him/her.

"and all competitors were excited at Trudeau's vision for pool as a legitimate sport.[27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45]"

These references don't have to all be in one place. you can take all but 8 of them away from tihs sentence and use them elsewhere in the article in reference to the Internatioanl Pool Tour business. Smith Jones 00:56, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Proposed resolution

This is a total tempest in a tea cup. The clear, blindingly obvious, solution to this mess is to merge the IPT section of this article into the IPT article, use {{Main}} to link to that from here, and replace the IPT text here with a one-paragraph summary written with relevance to Trudeau in mind, and when citing any of these player refs, cite only a few that specifically speak to Trudeau's personal contributions (or lack thereof) not those of IPT more generally. I agree with RailbirdJAM that wholesale deletion of reliable sources is never a good thing, ever - instead take the matter up on the talk page until it is resolved, don't just revert away valid reference citations just because you doubt the relevance of them (that is a matter to be decided by consensus in discussion, not by editwarring). I also agree with other respondents here that the bulk of these reference citations are not in fact relevant to this article. Rather than kill them, move them and the material they support to International Pool Tour. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 22:28, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

• Support (as nominator, obviously). Barring substantive objections, I'm likely to just do it, by early next week so that this dispute can be buried. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 01:28, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

• I'm not going to explain the blanket revert. I've done that too many times. So, in moving forward JUST DO IT. As has already been suggested, the bulk of the section would be a great addition to the utterly dismal IPT article. If only more time had been spent on IT rather than needlessly jam-packing this one section. TheDevilYouKnow 04:57, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

• Comment: Alright. I'll try to get to this tomorrow (or later today, Aug. 4 UTC, in many parts of the world. A bit tired now, and I guess it would be polite to wait a little while longer see if anyone has an outright objection or a narrower concern about the nature of the sectional merge. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 07:22, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

• You may take out whichever reference links you do not like. If "THEDEVILDOYOUKNOW" had not deleted them NUMEROUS times previously, OVER AND OVER again, this would not be happening. Trudeau, like it or not, is directly responsible for promoting pool, and as such, these referenced links of IPT players' comments belong here. They were pared down a while back, but AGAIN, "THEDEVILDOYOUKNOW" eliminated them ALL instead of keeping the pertinent ones. This is pure bias on the part of "THEDEVILDOYOUKNOW", IMHO, and as such, I have elected to insert them once again. They belong here in the Trudeau article. Trudeau invested MILLIONS of dollars to help promote pool. The IPT article is, of course, a good place to put some comments and references, but when IPT members attribute TRUDEAU as being responsible for elevating the sport, these referenced links belong here. If "THEDEVILDOYOUKNOW" deletes them again, I will replace them. We need to have this problem arbitrated by a Wikipedia arbitration expert. "THEDEVILDOYOUKNOW"'s bias is well documented on this article, and it seems that "THEDEVILDOYOUKNOW" wants to have COMPLETE control. This is not "THEDEVILDOYOUKNOW"'s article. This belongs to Wikipedia. Sir Timothy Berners-Lee would not like this type of behavior that "THEDEVILDOYOUKNOW" is exhibiting on this article. One person's opinion is not the be-all-and-end-all. RailbirdJAM 14:19, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

• Reply comment: I've raised some concerns with this user at his/her talk page. I doubt that continued invective here will serve any purpose. Y'all jus' don't git along. >;-) PS: Berners-Lee doesn't really have any connection to Wikipedia... — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 20:30, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

• Comment: I've sat on it an entire extra day to see if anyone would have issues. I'm pretty certain that I can produce a merge result that will make everyone happy. We'll have a much better IPT article, with more sources, and the Trudeau article will cite sufficient material for the purposes needed at this article, without literally burying the reader in citations (some of which do not mention Trudeau at all, as some others have pointed out here.) I think the compromise version will be much stronger, at both articles. And of course it can all be reverted if people disagree. I have had some practice at this, though. :-) — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 20:27, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Reply: If it is deemed necessary to edit the IPT section in the Trudeau article, then I would respectfully suggest to do the same with every single other section in the Trudeau article. Why would it be prudent to shorten the IPT section and not shorten the others? As long as it is NEGATIVE contributions in the Trudeau article, some Wikipedia contributors seem to think that is okay, the more the merrier, but when it pertains to something POSITIVE, like the IPT, the negative contributors don't like this one bit; thus, they DELETE over and over again anything POSITIVE written about Kevin Trudeau. Kevin Trudeau invested MILLIONS of dollars into pool. In fact, the Orlando, Reno, and Vegas events had historic record-breaking purses in pocket billiards, the LARGEST any player has ever seen in the history of pocket billiards, bar none. Filipino Francisco Bustamante, who came in third place in Orlando, told me personally that the $80,000 that he won was the largest amount he had ever won in his entire career at a pool tournament, and this is third place! Trudeau elevated the sport, providing a platform that pool players have NEVER seen in their entire life of competing in pool, to include green rooms, a professional television stage as depicted in the picture, and a mandatory dress code. Trudeau brought in the game of 8-ball for professional competition, changed the playing conditions to 4.5 tight pockets (instead of the 5-inch big buckets) and SLOW cloth (instead of Simonis fast cloth), as opposed to the 9-ball game which is more of a luck game today due to the breaking gaffes, rack riggers, et cetera. Kevin Trudeau deserves to have a STRONG section in his article about pool. To shorten it to one paragraph does not seem right. If anything, it should be expanded to equal the other sections in his article. Of course, then that would upset the naysayers. I may be outnumbered in this debate, but I believe with all my being that I am right. JMHO, FWIW! RailbirdJAM 09:13, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

• Explanation: Sorry I wasn't clearer on this... The reason that the IPT section would be short here is because of the recommendations of WP:SUMMARY style. If you come back to this article in a year or two, the entire thing will probably consist of very short paragraphs with {{Main}} cross-references, because there will be an article about his FTC case, about this book and its controversy, etc. When a main article exists for a topic, as it does for International Pool Tour, the details go there, and only the most relevant aspects of it are mentioned in related topics, like the founder of the IPT, which instead summarize very briefly and use {{Main}} to link to the main article on that side-topic, where all the details on it are. This helps prevent article bloat and out-of-synch details. As I said above, I am almost dead certain that a merge of this material into the IPT article will satisfy everyone. I'm holding off another day instad of just doing it; I want everyone's buy-in or my attempts at dispute resolution will have been wasted effort. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 10:40, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

• Reply to RailbirdJAM : A quick search through the talk page will reveal that trimming down the 'Natural Cures book' section has already been discussed. It's already been renamed PUBLICATIONS. I've been looking into what information can be trimmed/moved. TheDevilYouKnow 21:14, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Sorry for the delay on the dealing with this; been very busy offline, then ill for a week. I should be back active again in a few days and will try to make this one of the higher priorities. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 17:48, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

I know exactly what you mean. I've got my regular job plus I've been trying to find some spare time do rebuild and re-tool my brother's site for his company (just dropped it in my lap with no mention of $$$). I thought about going ahead and doing it but I figured you might already have some ideas on what exactly you wanted to do with the section. TheDevilYouKnow 19:48, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Attention

Attention PLEASE don't rea-dd the rude and obnoxious categories confidence trickster and fraudster to the page without tlaking on the talking pag ebefore hand Smith Jones

Hear, hear. I agree 100 percent. There is a great deal of BIAS in this article the way it is currently written. I still believe that a higher-up Wikipedia authority needs to review this article and make some suggestions. One person's opinion should not be the sole judgment as to what goes in and what is deleted in the article. Thank you, Smith Jones, again, for stating the TRUTH! Wikipedia is a fact-based encylopedia and should not be ruined with one person's opinion. It is the collective effort that is what makes this website what it is today. JMHO, FWIW! RailbirdJAM 15:57, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Removal of tags

NPOV tag removed...It has been there for far to long without the issue being address as to the neutrality of the article. Beyond the opinion of the person who place the tag (or resulting discussion which resulted in it being placed by another editor) there has been no attempt cite specific or any effort made to correct it.

Drive-by tagging is not permitted. The editor who adds the tag must address the issues on the talk page, pointing to specific issues that are actionable within the content policies, namely Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, Wikipedia:Verifiability, Wikipedia:No original research and Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons. Simply being of the opinion that a page is not neutral is not sufficient to justify the addition of the tag. Tags should be added as a last resort.

Beyond repeating soapbox rants or turning one editors issue of section length/summary style into an unrelated argument about bias no effort has been made to address specifics or correct possible issues according to policies/guidelines.

RefImprove tag removed.... all citation requests added by the same editor who placed this tag have been satisfied. No effort has been made to address specifics beyond citation requests.

Peacock...failure to specify - Drive-by tagging

Unbalanced...failure to specify - Drive-by tagging TheDevilYouKnow 06:18, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Actually many editors have explained in-depth the POV problems of this article, here on this talk page. Reading through it myself, I concur with them. I will restore one of these tags (however, whoever added three NPOV tags of a different "flavor" doesn't understand how cleanup templates are supposed to be used.) — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 22:32, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Tags

I agree with the removal of the tags and the issues have been resolved EXCEPT FOR ONE.

This article is still CHOKED with bias; sections 2, 3, 4, 5 (FOUR SECTIONS) are filled with rude and insutling accusations about Mr. Trudeau and his resarch. His credentials as a Consumer Advoacate were attacked by this page and any attempt to add anything positive about him like his contributions to the world of pool have been damaged and contested almost beyond repair. this should be taken care of now and if it needs mediataon then we should look into it. This is still not a fair article and it won't befair unless the the attacks aggainsts Mr. Trudeau are toned down significantly. Smith Jones 02:15, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Sections 2 Makes no accusations. All material is sourced and cited. Not once has ANYONE been able to dispute the information contained therein. Specifics please.

Disagreements over whether something is approached the Neutral Point Of View (NPOV) way can usually be avoided through the practice of good research. Facts (as defined in the A simple formulation section above) are not Points Of View (POV), here used in the meaning of "opposite of NPOV") in and of themselves. A good way to build a neutral point of view is to find a reputable source for the piece of information you want to add to Wikipedia, and then cite that source. This is an easy way to characterize a side of a debate without excluding that the debate has other sides. The trick is to find the best and most reputable sources you can. Try the library for good books and journal articles, and look for the most reliable online resources. A little bit of ground work can save a lot of time in trying to justify a point later.

Section 3 (Book: Natural Cures) - This is actually a fairly good sized section, so specifics would be nice. Trudeau's, "theories are presented" and yes there is information which disputes his claims. However, this is valid and sourced information. Trudeau as a Consumer Advocate is just plain laughable. Given his past and his continually spreading misinformation (i.e.: claims the gov't spends no $$$ on research of alternative medicine/therapies or confusing the FDA with the NIH) doesn't lend to his credibility. His obvious lack of understanding of things like the FDA approval process, cherry picking, and lack of understanding of basic medical knowledge don't help either. If you feel that you were being truthful and were silenced despite having mountains of evidence you can claim to be a consumer advocate. When you are asked to put up or shut up and you fail to PROVE ANYTHING (i.e.: the FTC asks him to provide evidence of his coral calcium claims) you have lost that right. When you get on TV and claim that according to official documentation, (2004 Stipulated Final Order is what he was referring to) that an FTC official went on record saying that they could find no wrong doing against Kevin Trudeau, skeptics start digging. When it's revealed that it was actually Trudeau that, "expressly denied any wrongdoing or liability for any of the matters alleged in the Complaint and the civil contempt action" he has lost credibility.

The the section "Criticism of Infomercials could do with a name change. Maybe Natural Cures Infomercials to separate it from all other infomercials like Coral Calcium and BioTape. Other Criticisms would then change to simply Criticisms. It should remain as it's legit, sourced and cited. Now the issue with the IPT section had NOTHING to do with POV/bias. The issue was with the sections length and that it was overly in-depth. It was like someone took an entire IPT article and plopped it into a SECTION. Not to mention that there didn't need to be almost twenty reference links to player bios, (which you later randomly slapped throughout the article which is VANDALISM). Claiming it had anything with POV/bias it's just plain silly. If it's cited from a reliable source, it's fine by me. However, when the rest of the article follows the sumary style, (Book: Natural Cures could be trimmed a bit more) it just doesn't fit or flow. TheDevilYouKnow 04:17, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

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I agree with you that a name change for that section is neceessary and I have no problem with your suggestion. HOWEVER, I disagree with your allegation that the editor who moved the references was vandalism. The link removal was discussed on the talk page before hand by myself with RailbirdJUM up in the talk page above this and were reveiwed to make sure that they would make sense in their new location. There was nothing that could be construed as vandalism about that editors work and it was made certain that the links would contribute to the article without burdening it as you suggested. And the section that you mentioned was perfectly in line with the article. The main reason that I can see it needing to be moved closer to the top is, so that people can see beyond the constant attacks on Truedeau's character and genuine, (Yes GENUINE) attempts at consumer advocacy. He may not be right, (I used to support his theories, but I no longer do) but he is at least trying to do good by his readers by sharing his BELEIFS on health care and big pharma and enduring the constant attacks that come as a result of that. He has done a lot for the fields of consumer advocacy at least as much as ralph Nader and has worked tirelessly to improve the lot of pool players in the States and Abroad and this section deserves to remain as it is without being tampered and vandallized. Smith Jones 05:06, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

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ONE of the places that I have trouble with is the citation from the Skeptics Dictionary. The name and the content is clearly biased against alternative and complimentary researchers. Since it has sources of its own I am willing to accept it, HOWEVER, in the criticisms section.

Another criticism is that Trudeau's claims are usually not backed by research, and that much of his information is an overpriced repackaging of pre-existing natural cure remedies. For example, "A Complete Handbook of Nature Cure" is a widely available PDF book with natural treatments that claim to cure a range of ailments.[16] Trudeau himself acknowledges that the, "cures" are not his; he did not invent them or discover them, but merely believes in them and uses them.

• the word 'preexisting' is misspelled. it should have a hypen.
• the source is just a pdf of the actual book which could violate property rights i'm not sure.
• none of these "criticisms" are actually sourced from notable sources.

MEANWHILE in the fourth section of this selection

The back cover includes the following quote from Dr. Herbert Ley, a former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration who died three years before the book was written, “The thing that bugs me is that people think the FDA is protecting them. It isn't. What the FDA is doing and what people think it's doing are as different as night and day.” Trudeau says that this quote does not constitute a false endorsement of his book by Ley, but rather is merely a statement that is in line with the purport of his book.

• Herbet Ley's quote remains unsourced and I am unable to find anything that proves that this passage was spoken by Truedeau. HOWEVER, despite this I have been uanble to get this possible slander removed. Smith Jones 05:06, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Critics say that by not referencing studies to substantiate claims that, Trudeau gets into a conflict with the FTC. The infomercials suggest that these subjects will be addressed further in the book, but critics don't believe this. Readers of his book are often referred to his website to find Trudeau's suggested natural cures, where a fee must be paid for its use.

These critics are not mentioned by name and no notable sources indicate that they exist outside of the mistaken fantasies of anti-Truedeau editors.

The section bellow makes three alegations about Mr. Truedeau's media experiences. I am satisfied with only ONE, (the third which is sourced. The other two are not unsourced.

Trudeau has been interviewed by CNN's Paula Zahn, NBC's Today Show, and CBS's The Early Show. Trudeau was also interviewed for investigative reports on Inside Edition and ABC's 20/20.

During interviews, Trudeau has often said that the television program in which he is being interviewed is, “owned” by the drug companies. This frequently happens when a statement by Trudeau is refuted as being untrue, such as his statements that the FTC could find no wrong-doing in any case brought against him. In some cases Trudeau has told his supporters, via his newsletters, that he has been, “attacked” on a particular program or by a particular interviewer.

• There are no sources to indicate that Trudeau said anything of this sort. Smith Jones

Give Trudeau a chance.

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EDIT: Another way to resolve this NPOV dispiute is to create 3 separate articles. One would contian a general biography on his life and career, one would mention his work on the intranational pool Tour and the third would contian the criticisms. They would be immune to NPOV rules under that set up and if this works would it could be extended to other articles. That have controversy. Smith Jones 05:09, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Ok let's discuss the reference links that were plunked down throughout the article. What does Tony Robles or Linda Carter have to do with the ITC complaints against Trudeau? Nothing. The quotes contained within do nothing but offer quotes about their personal opinions about Trudeau. They were unrelated to the topic out of context and the whole attempt was unencyclopedic and I don't see how it wouldn't be considered vandalism.

The section that you mentioned was perfectly in line with the article. The main reason that I can see it needing to be moved closer to the top is, so that people can see beyond the constant attacks on Truedeau's character and genuine, (Yes GENUINE) attempts at consumer advocacy. You're pretty bad at trying to twist this whole discussion. It has never been about deletion, bias or relocation. It is and always has been, and I agree with TDYK on this, about nothing more than SUMMARY. The article follows a summary style. This section does not adhere to that. We don't need every detail about each match, round or player in the section. That bit of information needs to be in the IPT article. Most of what RailbirdJAM contributed can be summarized and a link to the main article (IPT) inserted. Trudeau is also NOT a consumer advocate. He's simply spouting off the same misinformation, half-truths and all out lies that the National Health Federation has been spouting for decades. There is no credible or reliable information about him being a consumer advocate.

The part about the Skeptics dictionary is kinda funny. As TDYK pointed out and you backed up, it's cited and FACTS are not POV. It is also not a reference buy an external one clearly labeled as critical.

Herbet Ley's quote remains unsourced and i am unable to find anything that proves that this passage was spoken by Truedeau Huh!?! Kevin Trudeau never said it! Ley did! And what's this about a citation? It's RIGHT THERE (The back cover includes the following quote from Dr. Herbert Ley, a former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration who died three years before the book was written). Perhaps it needs to made clearer for you. How about this: ON THE PART OF THE COVER JACKET WHICH COVERS THE BACK OF THE NATURAL CURES BOOK THERE IS A QUOTE BY DR. HERBERT LEY. Better? This was mentioned in the Consumer Protection Boards complaint about Trudeau. He responded by saying that, "this quote does not constitute a false endorsement of his book by Ley, but rather is merely a statement that is in line with the purport of his book". As it has been removed from HIS website I will have to track down a secondary source.

The rest seems to be about citations which should be fairly easy. I just have to dig through my some of my archived bookmarks. As for creating additional pages that doesn't make sense. The IPT issue is not viewpoint related and there is already a main article about it. The rest is too tied up in his career. 70.246.244.158 18:48, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

CNN, NBC's Today Show, and Inside Edition. CBS News is referenced earlier (article and video) and ABCNews link (ref and external) point to Nightline and 20/20 (with/John Stossel). I'll see about digging up the others. I believe they include a written article AND video. I remember because both Zahn (CNN) and Lauer (NBC) get really annoyed (not as much as Harry Smith from the Early Show) at Trudeau's attempts to side-step, spin or even avoid questions.

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This section does not adhere to that.

YES IT DOES. ALL of the trudeau bashing sections are filled with systematic takedowns of this man's person and character. The ONLY difference is that the IPT section attempts to paint Truedeau as more than a thief and a con artist and we just can't have that apparantly.

There is no credible or reliable info about him being a consumer advocate.

he has worked tirelessly to promtoe his book and reveal the true secrets of drug companies and the FDA. How is this not consumer advocacy? he has done more for consumers and health care sufferers than many other people including people in the industry. He has suffered attacks by the government and the big pharma industry who would suppress his beliefs, because of their profit motive. you don't have to agree with his beliefs to at least recognize that his is a consumer advocate and a fighter for the rights fo consumers nationwide.

As it has been removed from HIS website I will have to track down a secondary source.

Good luck with that, but as I suspect it is a fabrication designed to slander Mr. Truedeau and violatre his sense of integrity be attributing false/ridiclous quotes by him. I want you to recognize this as what is it and remove it from Wikipedia, so that we can end the npov dispute.

The rest seems to be about citations which should be fairly easy. I just have to dig through my some of my archived bookmarks.

ALL of this information SHOULD have been sourced the whole time. However, editors add in whatever they can dig up on Truedeau to make him look bad without even bothering to make sure that the sources actually make sense. An honest attempt by a WIkiepdian at adding a source to some of these stations have been labelled VANDALISm by yourself and I suspect others too. This is COMPLETELY UNREASONABLE and preposterous and it is making the resoluton of this disbute incredibly hard to reach.

Get off your soapbox. Please provide specifics. All sections and a general blanketing is not specific. Promoting a book littered with half-truths and whole lies are not, "true secrets". Nothing in his book is, "revealed". Dr. Sidney Wolfe, MD of Public Citizen, the Ralph Nader-founded group and author of, "Worst Pills, Best Pills," said Trudeau's book isn't worth much. "I would say 10 percent of that is common sense and 90 percent is quackery" he said. This is from a 20/20 interview. I'll be providing the link as a reference, but I'd like to track down the video before that. I nearly fell out of my chair when I read the part about being "attacked". If you could provide any information that would undeniably prove he has suffered legitimate attacks for truthful information it would be nice.

Now on to secondary sources. I was able to find information about the Herbert Ley quote. It's from MSNBC. Well it's not a video clip of Trudeau's lawyer saying, "Yes, Smith Jones, I did say that" but it's a reliable source according to wiki policy.

Finally, information should be cited and sources provided. However, to randomly insert out of context and unrelated links is vandalism. What do IPT player bios have to do with ITC rulings against Trudeau or the non-surgical facelift?

Rather than complain why not take an active role. IT would seem rather than prove anything it's just easier to claim a conspiracy or that everyone is working against you. TheDevilYouKnow 15:47, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

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good faith PLEASE! I have cited numerous sections and quoted the speicific passages I had had a problem with above and you were able to answer most of them to my satisfaction. The only ones left are the most recent ones to my knowledge and I am still waiting for help from you. It was my decision to separate the artice into a Trudeau biography and a Trudeau-bashing section to illuminate this dispuite, but you refused so. I am still waiting for the information or else I think that the uncited informaton should be removed as per WP:BIO.

Dispute resolution on this

I'd like to offer my meager services as a dispute resolver here. Due to the lack of ~~~~ attribution, I can't even tell who half of these messages are from, and I don't care. I just want the article to be accurate within the bounds of WP:V, WP:NOR, WP:NPOV and WP:BLP. Could the combatants here please sum up their positions in, say, 1-2 sentences (without personal invective against one another), and sign them? I think that would be conducive to arriving at consensus on what to do with this article. I would really like for us to balance the fact that there is some tension between the liberal WP:V interpretation canard that if it can be sourced you can add it, with the WikiMedia Foundation's unwavering legal stance that WP:BLP trumps everything, period, end of story; while this bio article does pretty much necessarily have to go into Trudeau's legal problems it also must stick to utterly reliably sourced information in that regard. I think/hope that recognizing this will in and of itself eliminate some of the disputation here. Let's start anew not with what we feel to be true about Trudeau but what we can say about him in a reliably sourced way, both pro and con. (Disclaimer: My interest in the subject of this article is no more and no less than a) that he qualifies for inclusion in Category:Cue sports non-player personalities and b) that editors are irritated and fighting amongst each other here.)— SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 10:58, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Media Interview refs

I have added or moved around some of the ref links regarding Trudeau's media interview. Unfortunately, the companion video for the 20/20 piece "King Con" at ABCNews.com is overly edited (psst...some random user posted the full version over at YouTube). TheDevilYouKnow 05:06, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

CAN WE USE YOUTUPE AS A SOURCE?

There is no blanket ban on linking to these sites as long as the links abide by the guidelines on this page (which would be infrequent). See also Wikipedia:Copyrights for the prohibition on linking to pages that violate intellectual property rights. TheDevilYouKnow 22:02, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Books section

Ok this section has gotten to be a bit long. Also include information about the other books looks like a badly punched in edit. I meaning simply sticking "New Book: blah blah blah" as a subheading makes no sense. Much of the section should be contributed to the Natural Cures article, then condensed under a single section, possibly called PUBLICATIONS. Then each book (and newsletter info) could be listed below with a brief summary. TheDevilYouKnow 00:08, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

just did it Smith Jones 05:59, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

So that takes care of the section title. Trimming the article down by moving some of the info to the Natural Cures article is something that still needs to get done. TheDevilYouKnow 04:03, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

oh yeah? then do it yourslef. eveybody has to work hard to make this article nuetral and god, not just me, okay? Smith Jones 05:41, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

No Neutrality on Weight / hCG

12-Aug-2007: I also clearly view the article as slanted against Kevin Trudeau. Specifically, I added hours of detailed sources about his book "The Weight Loss Cure..." with hCG tied to increased testosterone levels in men (for building muscle to burn fat) and cited a clinical source stating no result for women, and it was all removed with a blanket rebuttal: "so-and-so says that hCG is ineffective for weight loss." I intend to dig-up and un-wiki-rot the sourced statement. It was much more detailed, and scientifically questioned the use of hCG for women (ergo, did hCG help Kevin lose weight because he is a man?). Is Kevin promoting weight-loss ideas that worked for him, as a man, that won't work for women? That's a newsflash, rather than adding FDA dogma. That was crucial, valuable information removed by Wiki edits. I don't care for such statements as, "The Kings of Medical Evidence said Kevin is wrong." Well, duh... (what do his book titles say about them?) Look at the whole picture, because Trudeau says that the "Kings of Medical Evidence" are lying to everyone. Do you now also see the need for keeping some detailed, NPOV analysis in the article? -Wikid77 01:41, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I have re-added the deleted text, about hCG, and added more in connection with the hypothalamus and also "tongkat ali" ("longjack"). More could be added since Trudeau mentions herbal supplements in his book ("The Weight Loss Cure.."). -Wikid77 12:25, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

The addition was overly in-depth. The article is about Kevin Trudeau and is in the process of moving more toward WP:SUMMARY style. You must understand that this is merely a section (rather a sub section of PUBLICATIONS) of a larger article. Consider creating the Weight Loss Cure article and placing a MAIN ARTICLE link within the section. You over used and overlinked references which were nearly impossible to read and were badly formatted. Not to mention that it seems you misunderstood most of the source materials you cited and used them anyway despite only vague covering the topic. The current ref links point to detailed information clearly showing that hCG is completely ineffective as a weight-loss aid, period. TheDevilYouKnow 20:18, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

I DISAGREE the main porpose of wikipeida articles it ro provide INFORMATIOn that had SOURCES which wikid77s response DID! if IN YOUR OPINION the weightloss hCG does not work then that is fine burt since there are sources that can attest to the fact that it des work then the information should be restored to the article PERIOD END OF STORY! wikipedia is NOT the place to provide madical advice the only reason it exists to provide inofmraiton about subjects such as these and your decision to censor some medical evidence just because you don't personally agree iwth it is not only a violation of wikipedia rules by a trespass onto the idea of free speech and democracy on the internet. i recomemnd that the article sections that were blanked should be repeated unless there are any ACTUAL nonb-aised reasons for their removal apart from ad esire to make wikipedia into a gate communited where only some ideas can be aire.d Smith Jones 16:26, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

4 step weight loss cure

I have reverted the edit that claims that the "Weight Loss Cure" is a 4 step process. If it is indeed a 4 step process, please provide a source and describe the step. --Spring Rubber 22:02, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Clear bias of articles about Kevin Trudeau and the FDA

Having read through the articles on Kevin Trudeau and the FDA, including the article "Criticism of the FDA", I must say that there is clear bias against Trudeau. The reason is that there is no examination of Trudeau's assertion that the FDA operates on a purely money-orientated basis, and even the article "Criticism of the FDA" leaves you with the impression that the fundamental purpose of the FDA is health care. This is sharply contrasted with the direct criticism in the Trudeau article about his life and opinions, which seem to form the life-blood of that article. Is it now Wikipedia's policy to protect large organisations and attack individuals solely on that basis? I have no personal bias for or against Trudeau as I have only just discovered his existence (I am a UK resident) and therefore welcome all responses to my points. Jamespelham1978 01:43, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

james, i wouldnt bother. for some reason any attept to correct the humongous bais against truedeau is met with violence and hostilityi. i dont understand it myself either; i dont want to beleive that all of this people who working ont his article are FDA employes but icannot think of explain the vicious anti-truedeau attack pieces that thies artyicle is turning in too. maybe you can help out since you havent been here for the earlier desbate s. ? Smith Jones 21:51, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Jamespelham1978, if you believe there to be "clear bias" please specify which areas are bias and why it is so. I see that you have pointed out one section and I will address this. This article is about Kevin Trudeau and contains sections which list claims or opinions. Factual information is included which points out how the claims are often flat out incorrect. For example if his claim that heart burn is cause by gases produced in the stomach during digestion. The section would go on to contain a correction to this statement and likely include the fact that other such claims are no longer included in spots since they were ridiculed. It may even include a linked to an archived version of naturalcures.com which listed information which directly contradicted is television and radio claims.

In regards to "Criticism of the FDA", this article is about Kevin Trudeau. It is not a forum to discuss the merits of his claims and opinions. The fore-mentioned article is a collection of opinions if you will. So and so believes this and so and so has raised this concern. You simply cannot support one opinion by offering up another. I find the very first criticism quite comedic. People don't care what the FDA does right. They only get all stirred up when they do something wrong.

Lastly, I'm curious as to why you felt it necessary to mention that you're from the UK. I won't bother going into Trudeau's celebrity status in the UK, his run-ins with British regulatory agencies, his blonde British co-host, etc. Less we not forget his endless anecdotes about something that happened to his friend or some unnamed big-shot in the UK.

SmithJones, don't even start. Your contributions seem to be less about being constructive and more about utilizing the discussion page to stir people up. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.28.48.145 (talk) 03:46, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi guys, sorry I didn't get back sooner, I've been relocating. Thanks for your comments, Smith Jones and the next guy - who are you? I mentioned I was from the UK because I assumed Kevin Trudeau has celebrity status only in the USA, i.e. to explain my apparent previous ignorance. Secondly, I don't see why a genuine attempt to try to understand Wikipedia's policy by giving an example can be described as "comedic". The life-blood of what I was trying to say was that Mr. Trudeau is clearly being painted as a villain while the FDA comes off at worst as an organisation blighted by criticism with no real fault. This is clearly unfair, hence my entry. Thirdly, and most importantly, you failed to answer my main point which was why is he, an individual, slighted so much, where as the FDA is not? It seems fair to say that all individuals or organisations will have supporters and critics, so I feel that it would be best that every article has an equally sized section of positive and negative points of view, in this way providing as fair a representation as possible for each individual/organisation (sorry for not finding a more concise way to explain that!) I still appreciate all comments, I would like to get to the bottom of this. Jamespelham1978 23:52, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Rarely does anyone sign.

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indict

Due to a radio report that I'd heard, I have had the impression that he had been. I only know that he keeps intruding on what I do want to watch; whether the indictment is factual,.....? It had been a story about one of his books not including advertized contents. Why is this month not mentioned, or not clearly?? Does anyone know the subject well enough??

Thank You,

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ITV

Is Kevin Trudeau a 'silent' partner with ITV Ventures?

--Rebmareve4 15:16, 9 October 2007 (UTC)Concerned Consumer

ITV Ventures is a MLM "Work from Home" Vitamin peddling initiative. The result has been a huge increase in the amount of spam and marketing videos on sites like YouTube. TheDevilYouKnow 18:03, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

UPDATE - Kevin Trudeau is mentioned throughout ITV Ventures related sites. The partnership goes well beyond MLM though. If you look over at NaturalCures.com there is a lot of ITV related stuff plastered all over the thing. TheDevilYouKnow 06:22, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Natural Cures Book Section

Not sure why this has to be in the Kevin Trudeau article since there is a parallel article which does a good job of summing up the book. Additionally, this section is long and more importantly not supported by citations, I guess because there is no online version of the book? Or is it okay to cite the book though it can not be verified by the general public. Anyway, I would cut out most of that section for the aforementioned reasons or transfer most of it to the parallel article.Mysteryquest 23:04, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

The section does contain a couple of citations. However, it contains a link to the main article. That article used to contain a myriad of citations. However, there was a little trimming to the article as it contained too much biographical information and unnecessary found in this article. Dealing with vandalism Kevin Trudeau articles took it's toll on a lot of people. TheDevilYouKnow 07:10, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Debt Cures, New Book?

I was flipping through the broadcast TV Channels and saw an infomercial with Trudeau promoting Some book about how to get out of debt, Debt Cures, Credit Cures , something along those lines, But it's not listed in the article. From the little bit of the Infomercial that I watched it seemed like a sort of conspiracy theory where banks, credit card companies, and, of course, the government are working together to be sure that people can't get out of debt. The book supposedly will help, and you can subscribe to a newsletter too. edit:oops forgot to sign--Compgeek86 05:35, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Actually it's just a repackaging of other people's information. He just claims he's REVEALING it. His weight loss book is really just Simeon's "Pounds and Inches" coupled with more FTC/FDA ranting. All the Debt Cures information, like "pay yourself first" has been on popular shows like Oprah, Good Morning America and more. Kinda hard to tkae the "'They' Don't Want You to Know About" part of the title seriously when you learn that little tid bit. TheDevilYouKnow 07:05, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

If only we took the time...

I was skeptical about Kevin Trudeau, but actually calling the FTC and judicial systems, for

public information, Kevin Trudea has NEVER been found guilty of any wrongdoing in his dealings

with the FTC and FDA, as the FTC was ordered by the courts to sign a document implying he has

never been 'fined' or found guilty of wrongdoing. Look up any other celebrity who has been

faced with criminal charges and jail time, and you will note that the most prominent

information within the first two sentences, let alone the rest of their articles, of said

publications is NOT about wether or not they have been convicted or found guilty of crimes.

Just a thought, who is funding the Kevin Trudeau wikipedia page? Who wrote and maintains the

information and flow of information within it? The facts are the facts, and as long as

Wikipedia maintains provably false and misleading information, it is just another worthless

source of paid-for corporate media. Just my two, un-biased cents. I love Wikipedia!

-Adam Jones

Computer Sciences 68.0.173.185 22:01, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

First, Kevin Trudeau has not been found guilty as the cases against him have never reached a Federal court. Basically, Trudeau signs a settlement stating that he does not admit to any wrongdoing but he won't do it again. However, he HAS violated settlements on a couple of ocassions. The most recent being one example. The FDA, nor the FTC have NEVER been ordered by ANY court to sign ANY such document. In fact it's the EXACT OPPOSITE. As you can see in the article, including citation, that case brought by Trudeau was DISMISSED and the DISMISSAL was held up on appeal. Trudeau has made many claims the FTC officials are on record making such claims in the 2004 Stipulated Final Order. In actuality the statement was made by TRUDEAU. If there is ANY misinformation it's that which you are trying to spread, despite FACT. TheDevilYouKnow 07:01, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

UPDATE -- I forget to include that Trudeau's status as a convicted felon deals with his past activities such as credit card fraud. The statement is NOT in relation to cases involving him and the FTC. TheDevilYouKnow (talk) 21:48, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Random stuff by someone

... he recently informercialed "dept cures they don't want you to know about" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.11.73.232 (talk) 21:13, 6 October 2007 (UTC)