Does freedom of speech mean that one can lie and exaggerate about anything? / myLot

Canada

January 31, 2016 11:01pm CST

Does freedom of speech mean that one can lie and exaggerate about anything and take peoples' money? Help me understand this? I got an email pitching me to buy a book entitled: The Doctor Who Cures Cancer Once, I bought this book that claimed that almost every diseases was Your Body's Many Cries For Water On Amazon they sell this book The Cure for All Diseases: With Many Case Histories by Hulda Regehr Clark Come on? Why does the government allow this? Is it because what they say is all true? Help me as I don't understand this world?

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Anna

@LadyDuck (502812)

• Italy

1 Feb 16

There are plenty of SCAM books around, those that pretend to teach how to lose 20 pounds in a week and never gain them back again, to those who want to teach how to make money doing nothing. I agree with @boiboing those should be filed under "fiction", or "jokes".

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Hope

@1hopefulman (45111)

• Canada

2 Feb 16

@LadyDuck I can understand a fiction book with any title but when one claims to be a doctor and writes books with titles that are of a medical nature, isn't it against the law to do that?

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Hope

@1hopefulman (45111)

• Canada

2 Feb 16

@vandana7 Yes, fiction is fine but lying about cures to serious diseases, should that not be a crime?

Hope

@1hopefulman (45111)

• Canada

3 Feb 16

@LadyDuck Her book is still on sale. The Doctor Who Cures Cancer is supposedly by a doctor. The Water book was also by a doctor or supposedly.

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topffer

@topffer (42155)

• France

1 Feb 16

Technically, as long as they provide something, even if the content is not worth the price, it is not a fraud. It is why it is better to buy a book in a bookstore to be able to browse through it before buying it.

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Hope

@1hopefulman (45111)

• Canada

2 Feb 16

"The Doctor Who Cures Cancer" is the title of the book. While it may be misleading, it may not be a lie. It really does not say that the information in the book cures cancer but that the doctor does. It implies that curing cancer is the role of doctors.