Fair enough, I'm certainly no stranger to bad health advise from 'certified' nutritionists, or from medical professionals more generally. It's amazing to me that the people who organized the Cancer Control Society conference at which he spoke didn't double check his PhD credential before advertising it.
Yeah, given some of the kooky things he says, and without providing any references to back them up, it is rather surprising that no one has bothered to investigate his credentials until us now, not even his harshest critics, probably because they don't take him seriously.
further bothers me when others justify lying about such credentials.
I certainly wouldn't do that. Aajonus has told so many bizarre and contradictory tall tales and made so many outlandish claims without evidence by now (on which Tyler has commented critically multiple times) that his
apparent lying about his credentials--about which he hasn't had a chance to explain--hardly makes a difference. It would just be par for the course.
Besides, even if Aajonus had a PhD, it wouldn't convince me any more that his most outlandish claims are true, so when he claimed he'd earned one I was skeptical, but didn't bother to look into it, because it didn't increase his credibility in my eyes, nor change my opinion on anything he says. I guess I tend to focus more on evidence and what actually works for me (among which the raw eggs, raw honey--albeit fermented in my case--and raw meat/organs that Aajonus advocates have worked for me) than credentials, but I can certainly understand your frustration with his apparent lying about something you worked so hard for and I would probably feel more strongly about it if I were in your shoes.
Plus, Aajonus already gets ridiculed quite a bit by critics of meat and high meat and proponents of cooking, and I haven't seen a lot of praise of him in this forum recently (though that could be in part because I only read a minority of the posts), and some people do seem to benefit more from his dietary advice than conventional recommendations, so I don't see a lot of point in piling on. I suppose if he started developing a strong following here, I might point out more of these unfavorable points about him and his claims, although Tyler would probably manage it fine without me.
Also, Aajonus responded politely when one of his fans passed on a question and comment regarding his name that I made. I try to respond to politeness and courtesy with the same.
You've piqued my curiousity, though. Maybe Aajonus duped more people than I expected and maybe it had more effect than I imagined. Did anyone here really ever give much credence to Aajonus' PhD?