2011 · Aajonus Vonderplanitz
Cancer protocol survival rates
What this work is
A compilation of Aajonus's talks and interviews from 2000 to 2011 in which he reports survival and reversal rates for people on the Primal Diet, mainly cancer. The figures he cites include a 95% success rate, 96% of 242 cancer patients still alive after at least six years (a follow-up he attributes to Dr. Elnora Van Winkle), about 98% reversal with no prior medical treatment, and lower rates after surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy. He contrasts those numbers with the survival rates he attributes to medical cancer treatment.
Then and now
Vonderplanitz's patients ate raw animal foods after a terminal cancer diagnosis, and a doctor phoned them years later and found nearly all alive. Mainstream oncology ignored the count and kept surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy as the only accepted care.
Verdict
SCIENTIFIC
The work follows the scientific method, and the paradigm it assumes passes. Both layers must pass. The verdict is scientific.
1·This work · inside the paradigm
SCIENTIFIC
Follows the scientific method within Terrain Theory.
2·Paradigm · Terrain Theory
SCIENTIFIC
Passes all three tests.
How the verdict is decided
The verdict grades both layers: the paradigm this work assumes, and how the work was carried out inside it. Both must be scientific for the whole thing to be scientific. A clean method inside an unscientific paradigm is unscientific. An unscientific method inside a better paradigm is unscientific. A split on either layer is mixed. The worse layer decides.
1·This work
Did this work test its claim with methods that are independent, falsifiable, and non-circular?
SCIENTIFIC
This work claims that a raw animal food diet produces high cancer survival and reversal rates, with approximately 96% of cancer patients alive after six or more years on the diet. All three tests pass.
Independently Verifiable
Pass
Van Winkle called 242 people and found 96% still alive. Whether a person is alive or dead does not require accepting terrain theory to observe.
Falsifiable
Pass
If the diet had not worked, the 240 terminal cancer patients would have died in large numbers and the survival figures would have been low. Aajonus reported 4 deaths and a 50% lung cancer reversal rate as what happened.
Non-Circular
Pass
The diet is raw animal foods. The outcome is whether someone is alive. The phone call used to count survivors was not built from the terrain model's conclusion.
Why
Alive or dead needs no theory to see, and a phone call to the patient was not built from terrain theory. The report prints its own failures: four deaths, a lower reversal rate for lung cancer, and worse results after surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. Those numbers could have come out much worse, and the claim would have fallen with them.
2·Paradigm · Terrain Theory
Does the framework this work assumes pass the three tests?
SCIENTIFIC
Independently Verifiable
Pass
Terrain theory claims the host condition determines health. Whether a cancer patient survives a dietary change is visible to anyone regardless of whether they accept the terrain model.
Falsifiable
Pass
The terrain model predicts that raw foods change the host condition and reverse disease. If patients kept dying at the same rate as those under medical treatment, the model would have no evidence it works.
Non-Circular
Pass
The food is defined by what is eaten. The outcome is counted in bodies alive and dead. Neither the diet nor the counting tool was constructed from the terrain model's prior conclusions.
Why
Terrain theory says the condition of the body decides health, and that condition shows in things anyone can see: eating, wasting, recovering, dying. This report puts it to a visible test. Patients changed what they ate, and the count is who lived. The four deaths and the weaker lung cancer results are printed as results, not explained away, so a diet that failed would have shown it in the same count.
From the work
she challenged me about that record and then I gave her the 242 cancer patients that I had worked with up to that time that had been on the diet for at least 6 years. She called every one of them and found that 96% of them were still alive and well.
The ones that passed away, guess how much of the diet they did. 40 to 50%. The ones who died, they were very thin people.
Of the 240 terminal cancer cases that he has helped with, with his nutritional suggestion, over the last 26 years, only four have died of cancer-related complications.