Dr. Phil's Pills Cost Him Millions -- Settles Suit

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Pop head-shrinker Dr. Phil McGraw will be shelling out to a group of angry dieters. According to lawyers involved in the case yesterday cited by City News Service, Dr. Phil has agreed to pay $10.8 million to settle a class action lawsuit filed by people who didn't like his Shape Up! diet products.

The products, which include supplements and such meal replacements as bars, shakes, and ready-to-drink mixes, are no longer being sold, and the people who bought them accused the defendants, including Dr. Phil, of making false claims about their efficacy. McGraw's name and image appeared on the products. To palliate the plaintiffs, Dr. Phil and his fellow defendants will be setting up a fund in which the plaintiffs can choose between Nutrilite vitamins or a whopping $12.50 in cash. Of course, in the end, Dr. Phil won't end up paying a cent of his own money, as his insurance will cover whatever he has to pay.

What is Dr. Phil's main motivation?
Making money 75%
Helping people 25%
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[i:b2e0435e22]Every Monday, "Dr. Phil" features guests who live together for a week in the "Dr. Phil House," a home located in the mid-Wilshire district of Los Angeles. Peteski Productions, Dr. Phil's production company, purchased the residence last June. The inside was gutted and remodeled with the help of Phil's wife, Robin. We're told 45 cameras were installed in the home, and a brain center was built in the pool house, dubbed "video village." Miles of wires were run throughout the inside and outside of the house, much to the dismay of complaining neighbors.

But neighbors say the unsightly wires were nothing compared to the nonstop noise and ear-shattering arguing coming from addicts, racists, misfits and others who populated the house. Tom Griep, who lives next door, told TMZ he was none too happy when "two crack cocaine addicts were yelling at each other for all to hear."

Griep adds "Dr. Phil" violated the city's ground rules by taping past midnight many nights and starting up again before 7AM. Griep says some of the production staff were rude and uncooperative. He also claims the staff cut his hedge down. Griep and other neighbors allege the show constantly violated parking restrictions on the street and created an extreme eyesore with cables and all. Neighbors also claim the low-life clientele in the house caused several disturbances.

Neighborhood residents contacted the LAPD and other agencies on a regular basis, complaining that the show was turning their lives upside down. As Steven and Susan Jamerson put it, "Our once-peaceful neighborhood has now turned into a studio backlot." Griep says a production executive told him the taping would continue for several years.

Seventy-six residents signed a petition protesting the production and after a meeting last month with city officials, production was shut down. FilmL.A., the agency that processes permits for shooting TV shows and movies, has been instructed by city officials not to issue future permits for the house in question.

City officials tell TMZ the show had requested eight additional shoots, each lasting between five and nine days, but the request was rejected. An official for FilmL.A. tells TMZ that "Dr. Phil" was trying to turn the house into a studio, and that violates the city's zoning laws. [/i:b2e0435e22]

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"Earlier today, a poster discounted the effectiveness of culpable inefficiency, because, as he put it, the social reference was as corrupt as the act perpetrated by Dr. Phil and company. This specifics of his argument I will omit and concentrate on the crux.

In my last two evening's posts, I explored the vocabulary which could be employed to criticize the actions of Jamie Skeeter and Dr. Phil McGraw in forging the tapes of the conversation with Deepak Kalpoe. What I will do tonight is expand that vocabulary and included a few more participants.

The critical incident, involving the forged, 8-second Beta tape occurs on the Dr. Phil Show. There were prior airings; however, it is in this particular airing in which Dr. Phil vies for authentication. In order to persuade his audience, as to the incriminating evidence contained within the 8-second Beta tape, Dr. Phil McGraw props his stage with familiar faces, well-accredited by the American audience: Jamie Skeeter (former police chief and polygraphist), Harold Copus (former FBI agent), Clint van Zandt (former FBI kidnapping investigator and MSNBC News analyst), Ty Ritter (kidnapping liberator) and Beth Twitty (a commanding figure in the case). With the props on stage, Dr. Phil airs the forged, 8-second video of Deepak Kalpoe admitting to multiple sexual encounters with the an "easy-virtue" victim. With the tacit affirmation of the props, Dr. Phil passes his forged, 8-second video to the American audience. At no time do any of the props, especially Jamie Skeeter who taped the conversation with Deepak Kalpoe, object to any of the forged content.

Many of us would simply assume that personages like Clint van Zandt, Harold Copus, Ty Ritter and Beth Twitty were duped by Dr. Phil McGraw. Our earlier discussion of culpable inefficiency does not seem to apply to any of these props. Certainly, we would be hard-pressed to claim that Clint van Zandt, Harold Copus, Ty Ritter or Beth Twitty actively participated in the forgery of the tapes. "

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Phil is very lgatty to me. Props, like those used in the audiences at lgats, give credibility where none is due.

Dr. Phil is doing some very strange stuff. He has put a bunch of people into a wired "house" and is using a bunch of very confrontation techniques on people. He puts disturbed people into a pressure cooker, and then pushes them into having confrontations with eachother, making them tell eachother why they HATE eachother, and films it.
Then Dr. Phil walks in there, and starts YELLING at people, cussing them out, and shaming and attacking them.

This is not how psychological change happens. This is a type of emotional pornography, done for TV ratings.

What is more disturbing, is Dr. Phil bragging about how he can watch everyone in the house 24/7, from his office, house, and even from his car.

It makes me wonder, I wonder to what extent cult leaders are doing the same type of thing? Putting all kinds of wireless electronic monitoring devices in their groups homes and areas, and then monitoring everything from a media control center, perhaps in another house?
This would only cost a few thousands dollars to set up.
I think a lot of cultish leaders could easily set up a complete audio-video monitoring system, and then use this against their own people, and even try to rationalize it like Dr. Phil, by saying its about psychological growth, or even use it as blackmail.
No question, paranoid cultish leaders must be using these types of wireless electronic monitoring on all their key people, just to keep a close eye on them. The ultimate Big Brother.

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Very very funny stuff.

Ring any bells for anyone?

Sounds like your favorite confrontational LGAT?

Very funny video. Dr. Phil is all lGAT. While in the aftermath of my sociopathic Landmarkian doctor, and before I found RR, I contacted Dr. Phil and was LGATted again. They weren't interested in anything Landmark related, as a controversy, because that is what he does.

In the smaller context of Dr. Phil's world, the use of LGATs may seem funny, but in the larger context of wholesale usage by the entertainment and advertising industries, this is not the least bit funny. Regardless of whatever positives Dr. Phil or others like him may have contributed, he is not sufficiently credentialed or educated to be using LGATs, for tv entertainment or for "legitimate" theraputic reasons.
LGATs are used against us in one form or another on a daily basis in TV reality shows, pop psychology shows like Dr. Phil and Oprah, and in virtually all the advertising seen on TV. The American television audience is being conditioned little by little on a daily basis to become the ultimate consumer society. These are LGATs at work in our everyday lives, they are not the exclusive province of Landmark, Scientology, and other such groups and cults. It is a conscious, deliberate, and well planned effort for profit and market share.
LGATs are also being used in other parts of the world on less sophisticated or well educated (meaning even more susceptible) audiences, especially in the fundamentalist Muslim world.
Use of LGATs is a much larger and largely unrecognized global problem, compounded by technological advances in communications and media technology. Just as world society has been caught unawares by the unforseen problems and abuses of the internet, so has it also been taken unawares by LGAT usage. This is not just a matter of the methodology used by Landmark, Scientology, and some seemingly "far out" eastern religious cults and it is far more subtle, sophisticated, and effective than the cartoonish image of "brainwashing" left over from the cold war era.

By DAISY NGUYEN, Associated Press Writer
Thu Dec 14, 10:16 PM ET



LOS ANGELES - The parents of an Alabama teen who disappeared last year while on a trip to Aruba with classmates filed a wrongful death suit Thursday against two brothers who were once suspects in the case — a day after the brothers sued the 'Dr. Phil' show.

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The lawsuit, filed on behalf of Beth Twitty and Dave Holloway, claims that Deepak and Satish Kalpoe "intentionally, negligently, wantonly" caused fatal injuries to their daughter, according to court documents filed in Los Angeles Superior Court.

The couple is seeking a jury trial and unspecified damages.

"There is no doubt in my mind that Deepak and Satish played a role in my daughter's death and should be held accountable," Twitty said in a statement. "It's unconscionable that they have not been punished so far."

An after hours call to the Kalpoe brothers' attorney was not returned Thursday.

The wrongful death lawsuit came a day after the Kalpoes, both residents of Aruba, filed suit in Los Angeles against television's "Dr. Phil" show alleging libel and slander.

The brothers alleged that a private investigator secretly recorded a conversation with Deepak Kalpoe and aired it on the nationally syndicated show. The show altered portions of the recording to "create false, incriminating, and defamatory statements that the plaintiffs engaged in criminal activity against Natalee Holloway," the lawsuit said.

The defendants named in the defamation lawsuit include talk show host Phillip McGraw, investigator Jamie Skeeters and CBS Television Distribution Group. Chip Babcock, an attorney representing all three defendants, denied the conversation was secretly recorded.

"We stand by the integrity of the 'Dr. Phil' show, our editing process and the accuracy of the program that we aired," the defendants said in a statement released by Babcock.

Natalee Holloway was 18 when she disappeared May 30, 2005 while on a trip to Aruba with fellow Mountain Brook High School graduates. She was last seen getting into a car with the Kalpoes and their friend, Joran van der Sloot.

Police spent months searching for the missing teen, but the case did not lead to a criminal trial in Aruba.

Natalee Holloway's Parents File Suit
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Ex-Holloway Suspects Sue Dr. Phil
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Natalee Holloway's parents sue ex-suspects, who sue Dr. Phil show
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The gall!. Dr. Phil asks us to believe that he airs video tapes done by guests on guests on his show he and no one from his show previews them.

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