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== Advertising ==

* Kevin Trudeau's "X They Don't Want You To Know About" series of books and infomercials. While pretty much every [[All-Natural Snake Oil]] peddler has made grandiose claims about being suppressed by "Big Pharma" and the FDA, Trudeau is one of the few that got called on his schemes while he was still selling vitamins. Because of those schemes, selling books is about the only thing he ''can'' do now—anything else would land him in jail again, due to restrictions put on him by the FTC and the SEC.

* Matthew Lesko, AKA "That guy in a suit borrowed from The Riddler" claims his book's full of money the US government's giving away and how to get it. There's only two problems with this: First, most of the information he's selling is in publications you can get for free from the government, and those documents are not secret in the slightest. Second, the reason most people don't know about these programs is that most people can't use them; they're meant for corporations, small businesses, and other organizations seeking grant money or startup capital. If you were looking to start a business, it ''might'' be useful, but you'd probably be better off going directly to the SBA for assistance.

* Car filters that'll add miles to your gas's performance. In principle, it makes sense; if cars were super-efficient, less gas would be sold, meaning less money for oil barons, who of course [[Strawman Political|run the world]]. In ''practice'', it's idiotic; the "100 MPG carburetor" of legend is pretty much fuel injection, which every modern car uses, and anything that involves magnets or forcefields won't work because [[Artistic License Physics|magnets do not work that way]].