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VFF Preliminary Kidney Detection Test

Well I don't know if I can see through clothing, but I do know that the perceptions of internal tissue and organs occur through clothing. But that is not the same as having a flat full-body screen between me and the person.

Why not? Does your magical power stop when presented by material in certain shapes?


I have to be able to look at the surface of the person in order for the perceptions to form.

No - you said you can see through a shirt. This is most clearly NOT "looking at the surface of the person".



No. And we are not testing remote viewing.

OK. So why did you think you could before? This is a serious question - you sincerely believed you could, just as sincerely as the kidney thing. So what changed?
 
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Meanwhile, I am so confident in this specific claim of kidney detection that I am fully prepared to allow this specific test to conclude on my claim. Isn't that all that matters?


Which specific test is that?

When are you going to realise that the whole problem is that you can't both conduct AND be the subject of ANY test. Pick a rôle and stick with it.

Your best bet is with you as testee and us and testers, but you can try it the other way if you wish.
 
I prefer to transfer animals, yes, whereas my boyfriend - being a boy - is much better at detecting sports balls, tools, and cars! ;)

Wait. Exactly how many superpowers do you have, lady? Telepathy?

That's another ability that is WAAAAY easier to test for than kidneys. Do we need another thread?
 
There are complications with such a test protocol too. For instance the person might move.
That's easy to work around. We can construct a device to hold the body part stationary or introduce random movements into the control. Next?

Meanwhile I fail to see what external clues on a person's clothed back might reveal how many kidneys they have. I will not agree to a full-body screen. I must be allowed to see the clothed back of the person, or this claim is to be considered either untestable or automatically falsified.
Your failure to see the obvious doesn't mean there is nothing to see.

No Mr. Carr, you and I were discussing how I and my boyfriend were doing games of telepathy, where I send an image to him and he tells me what it is. You then said that I should try Zener cards, and I said that I won't because they are just flat images, whereas 3-dimensional images are much easier for me to visualize in my mind. I prefer to transfer animals, yes, whereas my boyfriend - being a boy - is much better at detecting sports balls, tools, and cars! ;)
You kept refusing to use Zener cards. I asked how you knew that they wouldn't work. You said that you had tried them before. Please do not lie anymore.

Meanwhile, I am so confident in this specific claim of kidney detection that I am fully prepared to allow this specific test to conclude on my claim. Isn't that all that matters?
Again, please do not lie. You have already told us that you won't really retract your claims. But to answer your question, if your confidence has no solid foundation in reality, then it's irrelevant. Thus, your confidence is irrelevant.

ETA: It is as simple as if I claim to perceive the kidneys, that perception is tested for accuracy. That is how I can know the limitations.
So, now you are admitting you do not know the limitations when two posts ago you said you did. Another lie.
 
Liar, liar. If you can "perceive" things through clothing - which you claim to have successfully have done before (although in reality you failed it), then you would be able to detect flesh through a barrier made of the same material. You don't want to do this because it would be too simple and there could be no arguing about your results - you could only say "human behind the curtain, human not behind the curtain." There would be no arguments about extra kidneys or anything else - which is why you will not do this.
The claim states that I need to see the surface of the body whether they are clothed or not. A flat screen does not give me an exact sense of distance to the person. Also, a screen does block the "vibrational information" that I claim to detect, which is why a partially see-through screen that did allow the outline of the person to be seen, also greatly reduces the quality of the perceptions.

I can not detect a person/no person behind an opaque full-body screen. When I had medical perceptions of a person behind a full-body opaque screen it was because the person was leaning against the screen so I had some sense of where they are, but even at that my orientation in the body was severely thrown off.

I will not do a remote viewing test to detect whether a person is or is not behind a screen. The claim is medical perceptions to detect the number of kidneys in a person, and I do require to see the clothed back of the person.

Its been established for about 20 pages now how to fix this. All we have to do is put a outline on the barrier showing where the person - if there is one there - is standing behind. You failed reading the FACT skeptics, but if you want to act like you succeeded you did so through clothing.
I need an exact sense of where the person is. And I did not fail with the readings of FACT members. I do perceive through clothing, but only when I am looking straight at the surface of the body.

No amount of you making up your own woo terminology is going to change reality. You using your proclaimed supernatural powers to detect the presence of flesh/organs/whatever you want through a barrier that is made of the same material as the clothing you already see through is not remote viewing. It has never been remote viewing, and it will never be remote viewing. It is a test of your own proclaimed powers, but since you don't have said powers you will never agree to it.
To see persons behind a screen is a claim of remote viewing. My claim is that I need to look at the surface of the person, whether clothed or not, in order for the perceptions to form. As soon as you lift that fabric barrier further from the surface of their skin and make it into a flat screen so that I do not know exactly where things are, the vibrational information is no longer available and my sense of orientation in the body is severely thrown off, and the claim can not perform under those conditions, and under those conditions it can not be tested.

"Since I don't have said powers" I should be expected to fail at the preliminary test whose protocol has been devised so far and never make it to an official test. We need Ray Hyman! He was able to falsify Natasha Demkina's claim with far less acceptable test conditions and with great courtesy toward the claimant.

Maybe. But a kidney test that provides useful information isn't going to happen.
At the very least it is able to falsify the claim, right? Since I can't see kidneys through a clothed back, can I? Because no one can, right?

No one is asking you to see people behind a screen.
Yes you are! You are asking me to see people behind a screen!
We are asking you to use your self-proclaimed super powers to detect the presence of flesh/organs/whatever you want behind a screen.
And I can not do that unless the person is already leaning against the screen, ie. I would already know that they are there. As for some kind of decoy that produces a compression against the screen, the possible clues of there/not there in this test would be of far greater concern than whether one can see some sort of "magical twitching" and body language on a person's clothed back that reveal the number of kidneys.

You've been shown how you could test this medical perceptions claim but you won't do it because you would rather put together a complex protocol so you can complain about the results and/or put together a meaningless study.
The study is OVER. I have defined a specific claim and submitted that for testing. I am unable to remote view through a screen.

Only in your fantasy world. You have been provided with easy way to test your proclaimed powers and refuse to do so because you don't have powers. You just want to be special.
How is forcing me to try to remote view through a screen, an "easy way to test my claims" when I have stated time and time again that my claims can not do that? I don't have remote viewing powers, no. I don't want to be special. I see internal tissues and organs when I look at people and I want to test whether they are accurate and whether they accurately depict information that should not be detectable by ordinary senses of perception.

You would fail such a test because you don't have the power to do medical perceptions, which is what it would test accurately (not remote viewing).
Testing whether a person is/is not behind a full-body screen is testing remote viewing. What I call "medical perceptions", or "vision from feelingTM" requires that I see the surface of the person.

Are we done, LightinDarkness? Or do you want us to go through all of this again?
 
If I have followed events accurately, the claim is currently:

VfF can detect which person(s) of a group of people has a missing kidney, by looking at their backs for a period of time.
*The people can be clothed
*They must not be hidden behind a screen

Is this correct? Are there any other limitations on the claim?
 
A screen IS the same as clothed - it's just that you can't see the difference between a person or not. The person (if there) will stand a specified and fixed distance behind the cloth, naked. The screen is basically a large piece of clothing.

There is no difference between being able to see through clothing, and being able to see through a screen made of the same material. The person will be EXACTLY THE SAME distance and EXACTLY THE SAME orientation each time. Why would you still have problems? You need to see their head to get the perceptions working?

In this protocol, you will, in essence, be seeing the clothed back of a person. Except sometimes, you won't. If your powers work as you yourself have described them, you'll be able to tell the difference.

Kidneys is out, Seriously - it's out. Forget about the kidneys. It's too complex, too expensive, too easy to game, too easy to cheat, too hard to scale up better than chance. Forget about the kidneys.

Any one of your powers - celebs through the TV, chemical identification, telepathy - would be easier to test than this.
 
No. And we are not testing remote viewing.

Anita, thank you for providing a clear unambiguous answer to my question. I appreciate it. We will consider your claim of being able to detect the ailments of celebrities via the television officially withdrawn.
I promise not to refer to it again in this thread.
 
A clarification, please:what do you mean by "look at the surface of the person"? You need to see their heads? I don;t understand what exactly you mean by "look at the surface" - I mean, if they're clothed, then you can't see the surface of any of their body except their face.
 
Why not? Does your magical power stop when presented by material in certain shapes?
The claim is and always has been "I see tissues and organs when I look at a person". I need to see the surface of the person. The Vibrational InformationTM I claim to feel is something I access when I look at the surface of a person's body. The Vibrational InformationTM occurs across the inside of the body and extends very slightly from the surface of the body and diminishes very quickly with increasing distance. I need to see the surface of a person's body in order for this so called Vision From FeelingTM to occur.

No - you said you can see through a shirt. This is most clearly NOT "looking at the surface of the person".
The shirt is very close to the surface of a body. A flat vertical screen is not against the surface of the body. Within the few extra millimeters that is between such a screen and the surface of the body, the Vibrational InformationTM quickly diminishes and I can not detect it. And based on my experience, I am not able to go through a screen and search for the Vibrational InformationTM, because that would be remote viewing. All of this indicates that vision is part of the vision from feeling, so I should call it vision from feeling from vision instead. Oh, TM.

OK. So why did you think you could before? This is a serious question - you sincerely believed you could, just as sincerely as the kidney thing. So what changed?
The person was leaning against the opaque full-body screen and I knew exactly where they were, however the perceptions were still thrown off a great deal.

Look, this isn't some kind of claim of X-ray vision that penetrates through steel, it involves something delicate that I detect right at the surface and inside a human body. :)

I hope I am not making anyone frustrated :brk:
 
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The test will involve detecting which of persons is missing a kidney, and I need to be allowed to see the person's back. I will not do a remote viewing test, I have never experienced remote viewing and I have never claimed to be able to remote view.


Now go back to posting #720 in this thread. Read the quotes that UncaYimmy posted, quotes said by you, Anita. Then come clean and admit that you're a liar. It would go a long way towards helping you dig yourself out of the latrine that you've thrown yourself into. Because after all, it's no secret...

Feel free to apply skepticism and call me a liar and a fraud.


... that you are a liar and a fraud.
 
Which specific test is that?

When are you going to realise that the whole problem is that you can't both conduct AND be the subject of ANY test. Pick a röle and stick with it.

Your best bet is with you as testee and us and testers, but you can try it the other way if you wish.
The specific test is detecting the number of kidneys in a person just by looking at their clothed back. I have already contacted four skeptical organizations and one woo organization to arrange a test.
 
The claim is and always has been "I see tissues and organs when I look at a person". I need to see the surface of the person.

What do you mean by "surface"?

The shirt is very close to the surface of a body.
The naked person can stand, if you wish, millimetres from the opaque screen. Objections?

The person was leaning against the opaque full-body screen and I knew exactly where they were, however the perceptions were still thrown off a great deal.

"Thrown off", but still present? That's all we need. All you need to do is detect a body through shirt material, something you already admit you can do. That's not "remote viewing" (although, I hate t remind you, you have claimed to be able to perceive people in other rooms, which would be remote viewing).

Look, this isn't some kind of claim of a X-ray vision that penetrates through steel,
You can see through steel though, right? I remember that from your early claims! :D
 
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That's easy to work around. We can construct a device to hold the body part stationary or introduce random movements into the control. Next?
Mr. Carr, your suggested test where a person has or does not have a fist against a screen, and the use of a decoy with random movements, has far more clues that reveal whether a person is or is not there, than the clues that might be available from looking at a person's clothed back to try to detect whether they have one or both kidneys.

Your failure to see the obvious doesn't mean there is nothing to see.
The obvious is that your suggested test protocol is far more complicated than mine, and yours reveals far more clues to the answers than mine could.

You kept refusing to use Zener cards. I asked how you knew that they wouldn't work. You said that you had tried them before. Please do not lie anymore.
You're the one who told me to try them. I said that I don't want to use flat images and I do better with 3-dimensional things that have color and texture. Do not lie anymore.

Again, please do not lie. You have already told us that you won't really retract your claims. But to answer your question, if your confidence has no solid foundation in reality, then it's irrelevant. Thus, your confidence is irrelevant.
I did detect that a FACT member was missing a left kidney. My confidence is very relevant, because I am willing to test the entire claim of medical perceptions on kidney detection and I am willing to conclude on that claim based on the outcome of that test. Please do not lie, Jim.

So, now you are admitting you do not know the limitations when two posts ago you said you did. Another lie.
I know that I can not perceive medical information through an opaque full-body screen when the person is not leaning against it to show their outline, and that even at that the orientation is thrown off. Stop lying, Jim.
 
If I have followed events accurately, the claim is currently:

VfF can detect which person(s) of a group of people has a missing kidney, by looking at their backs for a period of time.
*The people can be clothed
*They must not be hidden behind a screen

Is this correct? Are there any other limitations on the claim?


There will be if you actually expect Anita to follow through on a protocol that utilizes just these criteria. Because it's actually quite well accepted that...

Feel free to apply skepticism and call me a liar and a fraud.


... she's a liar and a fraud.
 
Shoes, Anita? Where the feet would be, yes, millimetres from the fabric. Where the orientation would be immediately obvious, and constant and consistent.

Can you detect feet in shoes?
 

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