"For the guy who has been working in the oil fields, how is he supposed to know?" Of course, fraud and just plain bad advice are not limited to the poor or unsophisticated.
Another is Craig Cox, a senior vice president at the Environmental Working Group, among the best NGOs on agricultural policy and just plain consumer advice regarding the various plagues of industrial agriculture.
Over at Red State, Erick Erickson has some plain speaking advice for Thompson: People are getting the impression that you don't want the job at all, or at least you seem that way.
In The Longevity Project, Friedman and Martin reveal that some age-old wisdom -- work less, avoid stress, exercise hard -- is plain bad advice.
Worse, in the search for answers, many pregnant women turn to the Internet and social media, which often results in conflicting, confusing and just plain wrong advice.
Others received dishonest or just plain inadequate advice like "You can't have kids and you'll never be able to adopt".
Although few studies support this theory, it is just plain good advice for healthy eating.
Although he is not in the business of dispensing self-help rules, he incorporates a few McNuggets of plain-spoken advice: Don't eat things that your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize.
"We're saying, 'Don't go it alone.' " Similarly plain-spoken advice is being offered in ads for an online broker, TD Waterhouse, which have eschewed words like "trader" and "trading" for "investor" and "investing" to cultivate a less short-term perspective.
One of the West Coast's best-kept beauty secrets, the body "contourier" Megan Simon uses endermologie, sunless airbrush tanning, electrical currents, pet products and plain old good advice to make her celebrity clientele look slim, trim and cellulite-free.
For one, the duo's argument against keeping luxury goods out of e-commerce is plain old bad advice.
