Syvia Browne: Bogus Psychic & Her Phony Predictions
 

I hate ppl like her, totally taking advantage and getting rich off of grieving folks, claiming to be psychic and communicating with the deceased. "Is there an "R" around you? I see an R. Rob? Yes. Is he a cousin? Or uncle? Yes an uncle. Well, Uncle Rob is telling me he likes your patio furniture you just bought."

http://www.randi.org/jr/101802.html

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"What I want to know is, if Browne can make such "accurate" predictions about future events, why don't the spirits tell her about things that are important instead of shoving into other people's business? For example, there are many serial murderers operating now in the United States, and the dead folk she speaks to could tell her who they are and how to catch them. Are Brad Pitt's romantic future, and my investments, really more important than catching murderers via the afterlife? What about the thousands of missing children cases? Serial rapists?
She's a charlatan, but if she really had this capability of prediction, it'd be even more vile. At least the nutjobs who predict the world will end, are talking about something of consequence, and at least they want to warn people to help more survive the disaster."

http://www.randi.org/jr/091701.html

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"But I ask you to remember that Sylvia also predicted in 1998 that Bill Clinton would be exonerated in the Paula Jones case, and that AIDS would be in full remission and breast cancer was going to be absolutely preventable and cured by the end of 1999. Louis Farrakhan, she averred, would move to the Middle East to live. In 2000, she predicted, the Democrats would win the election with Bill Bradley, and David Letterman would quit his nightly late show that year. These whoppers were accompanied by a whole string of earthquake predictions, all just as accurate. Prediction appears not to be one of Sylvia's strengths.....

In a box beneath the vapidities she offered about the terrorist events, after asking readers to pray for everyone involved, dead and alive, Sylvia Browne advertised that for a mere $4,867 you can go to Greece and Turkey in October and celebrate her 66th birthday with her. While we're reeling from this tragedy, trying to bring consolation to those people who were murdered while pursuing their daily labors, leaving orphans and grieving friends and family behind, Sylvia Browne wants us to go on a party with her? I cannot imagine that anyone would take this occasion to promote her business, but Browne has done so."

Sylvia Browne is an ugly old broad who makes $$$ off of people who are desperate

She only "tells them what they want to hear"...

Her and John Edward and James van Praagh all play a game of Glorified 20 Questions, extracting info from their clients at ferrarri like speed and then, when hitting on something finally, simply add to their 'hits.' Just watch them with this in mind and you can see the manipulation going on. Its disgusting.

i wasnt aware there was such a thing as a psychic that wasnt bogus.

she's no better or worse than most religionists or politicians...


they argue about 'maybe' things

they argue and dicuss 'concepts'

most of what they work in are in the intangible realm...


the only thing I give a shit about is the OUTCOME...are the results of what they do MORE helpful or harmful to people they are 'working to serve' ?

I love John Stossels reporting on myths and lies
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=124301&page=3

MYTH #7 ? Do Psychics Have Psychic Powers That Solve Crimes?

Lots of people believe that psychics can use special powers to help police solve crimes or find missing people.

Kathy Kupka wanted to believe it. Her younger sister Kristine had been going out with a man Kathy didn't trust, and when Kristine didn't return home after getting in that man's car, Kathy suspected her sister had been killed.

In her desperation to find her sister, she put up a billboard offering a $25,000 reward.

So-called psychics started calling her. And she hired some of them, trying anything she could to find her sister. She even contacted one of America's most famous psychics, Sylvia Browne.

She thought Browne would be the one to help her. "I was super-hopeful. I was like, 'oh that's it. We're definitely going to find her. There's no doubt in my mind.'"

Kupka got on a TV show where Browne was demonstrating her ability to talk to the dead. Browne quickly said Kristine was communicating to Browne, and that Kristine was dead, in New Mexico.

Police checked out Browne's lead, and found nothing.

We wanted to talk to Browne. She agreed, and then backed out. She told us she's solved thousands of cases and never charges grieving families for her services. Several years ago, however, a magazine examined 35 cases Browne had been involved in. They couldn't find proof that she had solved any.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the FBI also maintain that psychics have never helped solve a single missing person case.

We helped Kathy give it one more try. We asked Kathlyn Rhea, a famous psychic who police work with regularly and credit her with sometimes helping them.

We paid Rhea $1,800 for her services. She explained to Kathy and the private investigator Kathy hired, that Kristine had been murdered.

She was very confident about it, and about where her body was.

She told us to look for: A road that branches off like a Y-shaped divide in the road. What looks like a country church. Something with the letter S. We tried to follow her instructions: But there were lots of Ys in the road; signs with an S.

Rhea wouldn't take us to the spot she was describing.

Mark Klaas , father of 12-year-old Polly, who was abducted and murdered in California, also went to psychics to try to find his daughter. None of them found his daughter's body.

But Kathlyn Rhea later went on a television tabloid program and said she was certain they had the right man because he looked the way she had thought. He was outraged and described psychics as predators who capitalized on families' grief.

Our search for Kathy's sister, following Rhea's instructions, proved fruitless. Rhea says animals must have eaten the body.