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Trudeau's newest book

Euromutt said:
What I find interesting is that among the 1-star (i.e. lowest rating) reviews on Amazon are a fair number by people who buy into sCAM but appear to recognize Trudeau for what he is.
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The Amazon reviews for his first "Cures" book were/are rife with 5-star raves that were transparently spammed onto the site to boost his ratings. Names given by reviewers were just like phony sender names on spam emails and I saw more than one review that was verbatim with another posted under another name. Wonder how long before this starts happening for the new book.

Ferd
 
blutoski said:
There's a used bookstore near my home that I visit weekly, and the owner's on-board. A woman came in with her kid saying she was helping him with a school project: they had to do a report about some prehistoric culture. She asked if they had any books on what life was like before the Flood. She couldn't find anything in history or anthropology.

He said, "Ah. You're looking in the wrong place. Try fiction. Over there."
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BWAHAHAHAHA, that's fantastic.

I got excited when I moved to my new home and saw a used bookstore... though we have the opposite problem. There's no science section. I guess we can't have people getting all uppity with all that learnin'.

Hooray for the bible-belt.
 
drfrank said:
Quick, we need to airdrop Fowlsound over Kevin Trudeau's house asap before he can no longer plead temporary insanity.
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I'm on it. Turnip to the rescue!




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OK, who took the black helicopter out last time? I need the keys, please.
 
FreakBoy said:
BWAHAHAHAHA, that's fantastic.

I got excited when I moved to my new home and saw a used bookstore... though we have the opposite problem. There's no science section. I guess we can't have people getting all uppity with all that learnin'.

Hooray for the bible-belt.
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If it's any consolation, here in Asheville a lot of woo gets shelved with the science. But at least we do have science sections. :D
 
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Trantor said:
Yahzi, I don't watch Home shopping Channels, so you may be right about the hostess being employed by Trudeau.

This was a Home Shopping Channel, not one of those paid avertisments on late night television. But, maybe Trudeau bought some air time. He did have a very polished act. I'm sure he got a bunch of suckers to buy his crap.
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well if he was on one of the homeshopping channels, it is no surprise the host was impressed and exicted, that is what they are paid for, driving sales. it would be totally ridiculous to bring someone on to promote a product and question its integrity, haha. we have about 5 home shopping channels and if you havent noticed, they are FULL of bogus products. look at all the anti-ageing, wrinkle removers, etc. they are a mountain of pseudoscientific jargoning. they charge you 50 dollars for three ounces of a cream that they added finely ground barnacles from a saltwater inland lake in japan or something claiming its the secret of the orient.
 
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Nex said:
If it's any consolation, here in Asheville a lot of woo gets shelved with the science. But at least we do have science sections. :D
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B&N shelves books by David Hatcher Childress in the science section and when I see them I reshelve them in the metaphysics section, since they don't have a 'self-published-nearly-unreadable-due-to-grammatical-errors-and-nutty-as-a-fruitcake' section.

e.g., http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0932813100/sr=8-1/qid=1147355860/ref=sr_1_1/103-6617369-5950248?%5Fencoding=UTF8

Ferd
 
When I worked at a fairly large, mostly green decor (at that time) bookstore, I worked in the section that included woo, much to my annoyance. That was alleviated somewhat by the realization that the rest of the staff in "Section 2" was on my side. We referred to that area of the store as "newage," to rhyme with sewage.

Interestingly, our section also encompassed religion...and fiction.

I did a week covering for our magazine manager, so I had to be taught the ins and outs of shelving magazines. He had arranged the shelves so that the newage magazines were on the top row of the bottom section, thus ensuring that no-one ever bought them.

A month later, after one of the occasional store re-arrangements, a new woman was in charge of the magazines. She sent out a memo stating that the newage stuff was now going to be in the same section as the other (sic) science magazines. All of the other managers were aghast/annoyed/upset. I don't recall her lasting long in that position.

I also tried to staff rec "Flim-Flam" as often as I could.
 
I own a used bookstore, and we have a New Age section. I would love to call it the "woo" section, but we're a new business and we can't afford to offend any customers. We need their money. New Age has grown fairly rapidly, which is surprising considering the part of town we're in. I stocked Randi's The Mask of Nostradamus in the New Age section (I also sometimes pronounce it "newage"). I have a copy of Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural, but that's on a display shelf. As soon as I get a copy of Flim Flam, I'll stock it in newage.

We are in the general area of Rhema, a church/school founded by Kenneth Hagin. Our religion section is our largest non-fiction section, and includes many of Hagin's books. It is very tempting to put Hagin's books together with the Occult books, since they are so similar, right down to the magic incantations and speaking in tongues. These books... they're scary... epitomize the insular, paranoid, woo mentality that is often seen in today's Religious Right. Yet, we get a lot of Rhema students in the store, and their money is green, so I'll stock the books.

On the other side of town we have Oral Roberts. That's right, the Lord hasn't called him home yet. Occasionally I drive by the spot where he supposedly saw the 900 ft Jesus. I reflect on how uncomfortable it can be to live in a place like this. Oral to the west of me, Hagin to the east (here I am, stuck in the middle with you).
 
BryanLower said:
I reflect on how uncomfortable it can be to live in a place like this. Oral to the west of me, Hagin to the east (here I am, stuck in the middle with you).
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Heh. Wheeling along, eh? I thought it was clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right :)

As to Trudeau's book, well, I didn't see it at the Borders, but we've been a bit less likely to visit since they refused to shelf the issue with the cartoons in it. The local staff in our store was actually sorta embarrased, to give them some credit.

While they do have a big sewag, err newage section, they also are known to put "Flim Flam", "Faith Healers" and some of the Shermer books in the section. Occasionally somebody gets really upset, I'm told.
 
Major bookstores here all have science sections, except all the books in those sections are about repairing cars, reading palms or "quantum mind".
I suppose science geeks like us buy our books online anyway, so there's really no consumer pressure for them to bring real science into the bookstores.
 
I saw Trudeau's new book in the bookstore for the first time today, and in flipping through it, I was most amused by the "Disclaimer" at the start of the book. A disclaimer that basically said 'This is a work of fiction. There's some truth sprinkled throughout. Don't take it seriously. Trudeau is a two-time felon,' etc.

I'd like to make use of the full disclaimer, but Amazon.com doesn't allow you to search inside either of Trudeau's books. Might anyone here have access to a book, and who could share that disclaimer?

Thanks,
Loren
 
I'm listening to this guy on a local radio station right now. He was just talking about how he's giving the actually names of products in the new book, and he wants the FTC and FDA to go after him, because that means more publicity and more book sales. What a joker.
 
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