Simple Effective Weight Loss

Interview with

Anderson A. Anonymous, M.D., Ph.D.

Multi-Diet Author

By
Barbara Walter

"The hard part, by which I mean the research, has been done for years. What's been lacking up to now is the organizing concept that lets us pull all the diverse data together and use it successfully. The threshold theory provides that organizing concept."

BW: Dr. Anonymous, thank you for agreeing to this interview.

AAA: It's my pleasure, of course.

BW: First of all, why are you remaining so anonymous?

AAA: Because my wife assures me that she'll poison me the day she sees my picture in a supermarket tabloid.

BW: No, really.

AAA: Well, OK. Of course there are one or two other reasons.

I'm sure you already know that anonymous authorship has a long and honorable history.

For example, The Federalist papers, which are probably the greatest political documents after the U.S. Constitution itself, were all written anonymously.

"Voltaire" was really Francois Marie Arouet. "Mark Twain" was a pseudonym of Samuel Clemens. Marian Evans called herself "George Eliot".

Even the name "William Shakespeare" is very possibly merely a pseudonym of Edward de Vere, who was the 17th Earl of Oxford at the time the historical "Shakespeare" was writing.

But on the other hand, there are lots of authors who write mainly because they have an unconscious desire for the attention that book authorship brings. This usually detracts from the quality of whatever they say. And then when they actually get the attention they want, they realize how much privacy they've given up for it.

In my own case, I have no personal need for any more attention than I'm getting, so I prefer to retain my privacy until I have a much better reason for giving it away. After all, in the present world of media circuses, privacy is like virginity. Once it's gone... it's not coming back.