Tyler gave the best description of him when he said something like... he is a cross between a genius and a charlatan.
Vinny is a slippery, con artist. He dumps on others quite liberally with the apparent objective amongst other things) of selling his services and products. He filters replies to his Yahoo group, allowing only the obsequious to slide through. The replies there almost seem like he wrote them himself. He even makes death threats about people he doesn't like. However thanks to him I discovered the raw diet.
Ouch!
You really put a bandaid on that one with that last line.
And Geoff, wow, he really took a chunk out of Vinny. And I thought his stance on raw dairy was brutal and overreactive, lol.
Aajoinus has made numerous bogus claims in the past. For example, he has claimed that he did a huge amount of scientific research. When people, however, ask for him to provide the evidence for such research, he pretends that he can only obtain the results if people give him a million dollars or more. Then there's his ridiculous coyote story etc. So, kind of difficult to support his detox theories. Ironically, his claims re cooked food being unhealthy are easily proven by looking at the thousands of studies found on pubmed etc. which detail the precise damage caused by heat created toxins like advanced glycation end products etc. If he just cited those, he would have more crediblity.
The 90 percent claim is also ridiculous. For one thing, science advances by the mass of data. So, if we have a dozen studies favouring one side and only 1 study favouring the opposite side, then it is reasonable to assume that the former side is the correct stance. So, while 1 study may be wrong,(such as the study claiming 90 percent of all other studies are fraudulent), the studies as a whole prove the point.
As for clay, there is numerous evidence to back clay as a detoxer:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geophagy#Impact_on_health
Parrots are known to eat clay rich soil in order to counter the buildup of toxins from the plants they eat etc.
As for Bruce K, he is hardly intelligent. His constant changing of dietary stance indicates strong orthorexia, among other things. My own formerly swift changing of dietary stance, 10 years ago, stopped once I found what worked for me - it is not comparable to Bruce K's absurd behaviour, since I was doing it solely for health, rather than trying to confuse people.
Geoff, Geoff, Geoff. Once again, let me start by saying the 90% quote was perfectly valid and I consider the point you tried to make to disprove that finding not even worthy of moot. Another ridiculous pro-BS research claim without a credible reference (lol). Ahem, I agreed with the clay one, but I also raise the fact that that more than clay can do that. Look at cilantro for instance. That's known to detoxify mercury. Aloe and bitter herbs are known to flush/detoxify the liver. Chlorella is known to detoxify heavy metals. Most of those things even have genuine 10% research behind them. Clay isn't the only detoxifier, and even milk can act as a detoxifier in its raw state, as can coconut cream, fruits, etc.
Moving on, I shall shoot an arrow through your anti-AV argument. Where's the reference for you claim that he's lying about his research? Have you ever poked at cadavers? Because Aajonus has, and people don't go around lying and saying "Oh yeah, I've digged into dead human corpses." And also how does he know the exact price for testing for toxins from the 70s as well as today if he's never actually done such research? Sure, he could look up modern prices to back up a hypothetical lie, but 70s and 80s prices, he'd have to do a bit of work to find those. And all this searching to put together a big lie? That sounds like something a CIA or NSA agent would do, not a health counselor. Aajonus doesn't make conspiracies, he fights them, and he risks his life in the process (reference: wewant2live.com newsletter november 2009).
Orthorexia is a made up disease. Just naother label like bipolar disease Yes, he did have a mental breakdown and did believe that PDers were trying to kill him (oy vay), but he did make an intelligent, experience-based effort to uncover interesting bits of health info. Again, no need for character assination, he did make some interesting points to say the least. I wouldn't call him "hardly intelligent" aka dumb (what you really mean). And when did Bruce ever admit to trying to confuse people? He may not have been so right, but he never attempted to throw people off the scent.
