I'm not watching an hour-long video of YOUR defense on behalf of Aajonus's terrible defense/explanation towards his credibility. That's absurd.
The image I posted literally eliminates this option. Richmonds University (no "h") doesn't exist as an accredited institution, the layout matches DiplomaXpress templates exactly, and actual honorary doctorates from real universities don't come with "magna cum laude" designations.
For context, "magna cum laude" is an undergraduate Latin honor.
An actual honorary degrees don't grade your "original research." The document is internally incoherent as a credential regardless of where it came from.
...No. He absolutely did use it. He published under the title "Dr. Aajonus Vonderplanitz" and his books and interviews leaned on that framing to establish authority over nutritional claims he was making to sick people. The credential was load-bearing in how he presented himself. How is this not already obvious?
This just concedes the point anyway. If he knew it was fake and kept displaying it, that's still deliberate misrepresentation.
Also:
https://aajonus.net/aajonus-responds-to-mike-adams
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He admits he got it in 2005 and calls it "just an ornament"
Calling it "just an ornament" after the fact, and reframing the wording to mean something other than what a PhD normally means, is retrofitted justification. If it was always just decorative, why was it displayed at all, why did he use the title, and why did he feel the need to explain the phrasing when challenged? People don't explain ornaments.