Posted By Ashles on 10 May 2010 10:28 AM

Well it's much easier because she doesn't ask herself the tricky questions.

Course, if she did ask herelf the tricky questions, she wouldn't answer them. .

"Mark, nobody can actually see through a napkin. That is ridiculous. I just claim to see into the body."

She wrote that right in between two pictures where she intently tries to stare through a napkin anyway.
Ridiculous indeed.

Not exactly university material, this one.

 

Oh how exciting, she has announced her next test.

To protect the integrity of the test, the participating Skeptics are not allowed to reveal their involvement or our plans until after the test has taken place and the results have been established

Wow, just like real science.

So this time Anita can run her little test with whoever she likes, however she likes, in secret, without defining the protocol, aims, falsification scenario, marking methodology... anything whatsoever beforehand... And the first anyone will be allowed to hear about it is after she has generated results?

It's pitiful really.

Still if this is what she has been reduced to then there isn't much more stopping VfF appears to require. Good work chaps.

Aaaaand Anita's forum comes to a crashing non-start.

No posts by anyone other than Anita herself.

And even Anita can't be bothered - she hasn't posted anything in over a week.

Has VfF been... dare we say it... stopped?

Anita forum update:

Frankly the Dodo looks more perky and active.

No posts in a month now, even from Anita.

And i notice even the view numbers haven't increased.

I guess no-one finds this 'interesting' any more, not even Ms Ikonen.

I think I bought in because it seemed more interesting than anything else that was going on.

How sad is that?

It's bizarre, sad, and scary. Especially because the IIG report, and I quote,  "In our opinion, Anita’s single 'hit' was simply a lucky guess" won't stop her.

The HYT had a fascinating article about people who can't see the problems that are interfering with their lives. Its focus was a bank robber who truly believed rubbing lemon juice on his face made him invisible. He's spent time in jail, because, it turns out, rubbing lemon juice on your face does not make you invisible. Like Anita, he carried out several tests of his lemon juice theory several times and proved to his own satisfaction that him + lemon juice =invisible. Scary.

I don't believe Anita's whole problem is the same as the Lemon Juice Bandit's, but there are similarities. It's a great article, even though it reinforces my belief that Anita's never going to stop, and the best we can do is get a lot of info about her out on the web so that anyone who encounters her can google her and run in the opposite direction.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/the-anosognosics-dilemma-1/?scp=1&sq=lemon juice&st=cse