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Consumer Conspiracy

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 This commercial pitch uses the approach of offering the consumer secret information that some industry "doesn't want you to know about". This can be investment tips the financial industry doesn't want you to know about. Miracle cures the medical industry doesn't want you to know about. Tax tips the IRS doesn't want you to know about. Even low furniture prices the other stores don't want you to know about.
You're not supposed to stop and think that these secrets are being sold over the mass media and if these industries really didn't want you to know about them, you wouldn't. Nor are you supposed to question why, say, "a mom from Suburbia" with no medical training knows more about curing or treating cancer than a board-certified oncologist.
See also The Man Is Sticking It to the Man. Sometimes overlaps with All-Natural Snake Oil and Spice Rack Panacea.
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 Chuck Garabedian from The Simpsons episode "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo:"
Later on the family finds him rooting through their garbage; he responds "You fat cats didn't finish your plankton; now it's mine!" Plankton that's well past the expiration date, mind you.
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 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.note The government even had their own free catalog for some of these programs in the 1970s and 1980s, and they made sure you knew about it, too; PSAs for the Consumer Information Catalog were very common back then. 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. They often involve significant work in putting an application together, and also in subsequent reports to prove to the government that you are achieving the things that the grant is meant to promote. 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.
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 Saw X: Cecilia Pederson and her father Finn pose as doctors who designed a revolutionary cancer cure, which they claim the pharmaceutical industry is trying to suppress in order to keep making money on expensive treatments that simply prolong people's suffering. In truth, they're con artists who put on an elaborate show for their patients but don't actually do anything, and had already been run out of their home country of Norway after their scam was exposed there. When John Kramer finds out that the treatment he spent thousands of dollars on and flew down to Mexico for was nothing but snake oil, he kidnaps Cecilia and her assistants, a bunch of local hoodlums who she hired off the street to pose as doctors and nurses, and forces them into his traps — some of which required using the medical knowledge they falsely claimed to have.
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