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The man claimed to have cured himself of terminal cancer at age 20 by drinking raw carrot juice and raw milk. Later on, he said he'd cured over 200 clients of cancer with his raw meat protocol. By 2010, he was claiming a "higher-than-90 percent rate of cancer remission" among his clients. WOW. Those are some pretty wild claims, ammirght? Too bad he never documented A SINGLE FUCKING CASE. You would think for someone making such bizarre claims that he'd ONE provide a peer-reviewed study, ONE published case report, or even a fucking spreadsheet. The nigga did neither of the above.
Vonderplanitz called himself "Dr. Aajonus Vonderplanitz, PhD in Nutrition." Now, this all seems soooo impressive until you realize that his doctorate came from what's charitably called a diploma mill LMFAO.
In 2012, investigative reporter Mike Adams from Natural News (which ironically enough, is a site known for its OWN questionable health claims lol) traced Vonderplanitz's PhD to "Richmonds University", which didn't actually exist as an accredited institution.
The diploma literally shared the SAME layout, SAME font, SAME signature, and SAME seal as confirmed fake diplomas from known diploma mills. You could literally buy the same credential from DiplomaXpress.com, a website that openly sells novelty diplomas.
Vonderplanitz's Diploma Compared To DiplomaXpress
When he was confronted about this fraudulent shit, this was his defense/explanation:
Vonderplanitz's Defense/Explanation
https://aajonus.net/aajonus-responds-to-mike-adams (also includes transcript)
1. It was an "honorary PhD" for his "original work"
2. Says:
"having demonstrated ability by original research, magna cum laude, with great distinction in nutrition. It doesn't say anything about academic achievement. It says original work."
3. Admits he got it in 2005 and calls it "just an ornament"
Sigh.
If you've read that entire thing and STILL don't know what it means, it just means the guy had zero formal training in nutrition, medicine, biochemistry, or any related field. He was a short-order cook who just decided to become a nutritionist at age 22. That's quite literally it. Everything he knew came from what he called "empirical experience", which, in my opinion, just means "I made this shit up based on how I felt."
Cancer Claims
1. https://aajonus.net/waves-of-healing-interview (Describes his cancer claim)
2. https://www.primaldiet.net/speech-cancer-control-society/ (His 2000 CCS speech)
3. https://aajonus.net/aajonus-on-how-he-created-the-primal-diet (Interview where he says "blood, bone, lymph, and stomach cancers at 20 years old")
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aajonus_Vonderplanitz (Wikipedia summary)
5. https://aajonus.net/we-want-to-live (His own book describing these claims)
2. https://www.primaldiet.net/speech-cancer-control-society/ (His 2000 CCS speech)
3. https://aajonus.net/aajonus-on-how-he-created-the-primal-diet (Interview where he says "blood, bone, lymph, and stomach cancers at 20 years old")
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aajonus_Vonderplanitz (Wikipedia summary)
5. https://aajonus.net/we-want-to-live (His own book describing these claims)
Basically: At age 20, he was diagnosed with blood, bone, lymph, and stomach cancers. He was given three weeks to live. After chemotherapy and radiation failed, a hospice volunteer gave him raw carrot juice and raw milk. Within days, his alleged dyslexia vanished. Soon after, his cancer went into remission.
This is such a bullshit narrative.
Like, at all. We have ZERO records of his diagnosis, treatment, or remission. For someone who claimed to be dying of four different cancers simultaneously, which is, quite frankly, an EXTREMELY RARE occurrence, you would at least think there'd be some hospital records, pathology reports, or doctor's notes. There aren't.
On one hand, he claims to have been cured of terminal cancer by drinking raw milk and carrot juice, yet on the other he also says he tried chemotherapy and radiation. This is confusing as fuck. Which one is it? Did the conventional treatments work? Did they not work? The story shifts depending on which interview you're reading.
He said he was autistic and dyslexic as a child and that raw carrot juice cured that as well.
Off-rip, anyone who genuinely believes this has to be suffering from some sort of mental retardation. Do you seriously think you'll cure something like dyslexia by drinking fucking carrot juice? It's a neurodevelopmental condition. This alone should've raised massive red flags about this dude's credibility.
Bro, there's genuinely no way people believe this shit. There is literally zero evidence for this claim.
Also, one person who tried to verify his claims was Dr. Elnora Van Winkle, a neuroscientist who allegedly called 242 of his cancer patients and found 232 alive and well.
There's:
1. No published data from this "survey."
2. No methodology.
3. No follow-up.
This was entirely based on Vonderplanitz's word that it happened.
And even if it did happen, as we all know (or so I hope we do), correlation doesn't equal causation. This guy is clearly committing what we call a cum hoc ergo propter hoc ("with this, therefore because of this"; a logical fallacy assuming that because two variables correlate or occur simultaneously, one must cause the other)
People who seek out alternative treatments often do so alongside conventional medicine, making it really impossible to know what actually helped. Fucking surprising. I know.
Anyways, that's all I have to say about this dude. R.I.P. Aajonus Vonderplanitz.
