MarthasHarbour - I'm sure that this particular little episode with LS, has only served to confirm in your mind just how easy it can be to start to shut down even sceptical people's critical and evaluative faculties, by reflecting their existing beliefs and instinctual desires.
LS's involvement with 'Tropic Skin Care' also demonstrates just how deeply the 'MLM' cancer has gnawed its way into the heart of traditional culture in Britain, without the mainstream media, or the authorities, diagnosing it, let alone trying to stop it.
Like I said, most casual observers who have mainstream media-based knowledge of LS, would find it unthinkable that he could be associated with, let alone promoting, a scam. However, it's not difficult to imagine the non-rational, instinctual denial of reality of friends and colleagues of LS to my rational analysis of 'Tropic Skin Care.' They would systematically exclude the wider-evidence and dismiss me as ill-informed and/or crazy.
Sadly, a high percentage of people find it almost impossible to admit to being deceived, because it's basic human nature to try to justify our previous behaviour.
Remember the tragicomic initial reactions of Jimmy Savile's relatives, when the truth started to come out.
All the most successful con-artists have known that the easiest people to con, are people with a very high opinion of themselves and who are, therefore, completely certain that they cannot be deceived. Once they are deceived, their own egos will not allow them to turn back.
'The most powerful weapon in the hands of the oppressor, is the mind of the oppressed.'