How to spot a liar, charlatan or 'used car salesman' in 60 seconds or less

Pinocchio, the character who lied so much his nose grew long

What your doctor won't tell you. What your government is hiding from you. These are clues to discovering in 60 seconds or less how to uncover a liar, a charlatan or quack or someone who just wants your money by creating anxiety you did not have before you started reading those first few words.

For it is often catch phrases, used over and over again, throughout an article, letter or post that are misleading you to the wrong conclusion and perhaps to a purchase as well.

The first phrase in the initial paragraph, I have used as example, begins your search for yourself: what your doctor won't tell you. The message is the doctor refuses to offer the truth. And why would most doctors want to mislead most of their patients in very intentional ways?

Surely doctors are wrong, some of the time, just like everyone else. But if the bulk of them misled all of their patients, the number of complaints would be skyrocketing far beyond the numbers right now. The Better Business Bureau would be bulked up with them and politicians would be screeching for heads.

What information, we might ask, would a doctor intentionally hide? A cure for cancer? A way to stop endless pain guaranteed never to return? Why would a doctor hide the truth about cancer? He knows how to cure it and just won't tell you? Think of how silly that sounds, unless you already believe you can't trust anyone these days. And what about pain, an absolute cure for it that the doctor is keeping from you. Do doctors feel happy when people hurt most? Would that not be a definition of someone who is dangerously, mentally ill, who enjoys the pleasure of pain? Would most doctors fall into that group? If so, how did they pass medical school or even college if they number in multitudes and are so obviously mentally ill? And why didn't anyone know?

Skip to the end of that article, post, or book in your hand. It likely sounds very convincing. At the end you will find in very large capital letters, bold words, underlined or italics, the point the writer has made. That's the product, material or more reading for you with a limited time you can buy at the reduced price offered right now.

And you get the cure because you are among those who are lucky enough to have found what you need, even when you don't need it, to get truth you won't find anywhere else.

Those folks who track fools, have research they tell you is evidence proving their words. Look closely, however, again. It is likely if you follow the small, winding road filled with little white lies it leads to research they have done or one that is limited in scope or with numbers you don't understand. And neither would anyone else.

Those who offer you hope when you feel hopeless with a diagnosis using words of such length you just can't remember them now, know it is difficult to wait in lines, follow tests and diagnoses and wait for information that can sometimes come so slowly when you want your answers now. So you are vulnerable and easy to convince when someone says the government and/or your doctor are hiding the facts just to keep them from you in order to make money for “Big Pharma” or some other catch phrase that will surely make anyone mad.

The charlatan, quack or 'used car guy' knows something you might not know now, but is key to avoid being misled and getting taken for more than a car. For people who want to trick you into believing things that just are not true know it is difficult for people to believe the truth when the lie is told first. It means the more the lie is told over and over again, when you hear the truth from a friend that tells you what you are doing might hurt you real bad, you will stay right there on the hook.

Which is why we went to Iraq in the first place and why folks remember it well. After all, some will say, those weapons of mass destruction just had to be found, didn't they?

It is like that for medicine too. And politics. And anything someone will sell you and hope you won't check right upfront.

So it is better to figure out for yourself when someone is leading you on and if you are being treated as fool. You can apply some of these notions with so many things, to political speeches and on Fox News almost every day. To do it in those 60 seconds, just read the first phrases, then skip to the end, where the pitch is sure to be made. Then you can say no, loud and clear and prolonged, and multiplied over and over, the folks “selling” you might one day give up------and get jobs like the rest of us folk.