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Good morning. I also think this is a great idea and offer any help I can give.
Over the years, she has made so many ridiculous statements on Montel you would think he would be embaressed to have her on.
She has claimed that aliens steal water from swimming pools.
She often gives questionable medical advice.
When someone dissagrees with what she is saying, she is often confrontational and claims that she is right. (like in the case of the firemans widow)
I remember Randi talking about collecting audio tapes of her phone readings. From what I remember, several of the readings were very similar as if people are paying Sylvia to read from a prewritten statement. It would be great to find some of these tapes and compare them. Of course paying $700.00 + would not be advised.
Oh yeah and don't forget to mention her criminal record.
Not that any of this will change the mind of a True Believer, but it might make some fence sitters stop and think.
JPK
 
Once the site gets going I think we should Google Bomb it to the top as far as searches for "Sylvia Brown" go. Adding it to the Wikipedia article on "Sylvia Brown" would be the first step.
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Just remember to add the "e" at the end if you do so. "Browne".
 
Some stuff you might find useful:

About SB's arrest and conviction for fraud:
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2843/is_6_28/ai_n6361823

SB was on Larry King Live just days before 9/11, and not a peep out of her about what was going to happen eight days hence. This is also the LKL show where she agreed to take the million dollar challenge from Randi:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0109/03/lkl.00.html

I'm trying to find her predictions for 2001. I recall she claimed after the fact that something she said about Florida was related to the fact that two of the hijackers lived in Florida for a while.

I think a list of her predictions for 2001 would be important because she stated after the fact that the reason no psychics saw it coming was because they weren't supposed to. I think it would be important to find out why celebrity divorces are supposed to be seen ahead of time.

She also claimed after the fact that she had seen fire in her mind all the week before, and connected it to 9/11 afterwards. So with that and the Florida thing, I guess she was supposed to see it ahead of time. ???
 
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"an educational resource on the paranormal, pseudoscientific and the supernatural"

Touche!

Isn't Google great?

Go get her, mate - pity she's never been down here, she seems like the type who'd benefit from a quick run through the sheep-dip.
 
One other thing that hasn't been mentioned yet, you might also want set up a timer similar to the one on the JREF home page counting the days and weeks since Sylvia has agreed to take the Million Dollar Challenge. Although, that all depends on how closely you want to associate yourself with the JREF. Such an association might bring on accusations of bias from Sylvia's followers.

Other than that, I wish the best of luck to you in this long over due endeavor. I would be glad to provide even the slightest aide. :D
 
It does make it easier to sue for libel, but most solicitors will tell you not to bother (having recently looked at this myself) unless you are prepared to pour a whole lot of money at it. In other words, if you aren't rich/famous, don't bother trying to sue for libel.

But I can confirm that for the most part, the US system is the opposite of the UKs.

Getting tired of being called a gov't shill?
 
Does anyone know copyright law? Can you post video clips from King, Montel and others without violating? I assume attribution is required.
 
SB was on Larry King Live just days before 9/11, and not a peep out of her about what was going to happen eight days hence. This is also the LKL show where she agreed to take the million dollar challenge from Randi:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0109/03/lkl.00.html
I note this exchange on that show:

BROWN: But I'll tell you something about you, Randi. You've got to look into your left ventricle in your heart. Now, you can say I'm just full of, you know, whatever, but you've got to check your left ventricle.

RANDI: They've been telling about my kidneys and about my prostate, about my feet, about my heart, my lungs. I'm in very bad shape.

BROWNE: No, no, no, no. No, no, no. No, no. I'm very serious. You've got something wrong in your left ventricle.

RANDI: Yes, well, we'll check it out, and I'll let you know...

KING: Now, what happened when -- as an example, Randi, just as an example, supposing you went to a cardiologist tomorrow, and he said -- this is just hypothetical -- and he says to you, Whew, your left ventricle...

BROWNE: It's all screwed up.

KING: ... we have to look right, something's the matter.

RANDI: I would get back...

KING: What would you then say -- would you then say...

RANDI: I would get back to you immediately, Larry...

KING: You would.

RANDI: ... and I would tell you that it is true. Yes.

KING: And would you then -- would that give you a plus toward maybe Sylvia has something?

RANDI: Well, as a matter of fact, I will call my cardiac surgeon tomorrow, and I will get back to you on e-mail, Larry, or by phone call if you will, and I will give you a complete report on the condition of my heart.
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Did Randi ever get back to Larry King? And was Randi's emergency surgery earlier this year in any way related to the left ventricle of his heart?
 
I'll look at my used bookstore for some of her books to send you. they come in a lot, which I take as a good sign.

You might contact Randi about this (after the cruise!)

He has some lawyer buddies that might give you some good advice. You KNOW Sylvia has lawyers!

Like I think you CAN call her some really awful names. But you can't call her a "fake".

seriously, let us know what we can do. If she is appearing anywhere there is a group of JREF people, a few protest signs outside the studio would be nice.
 
....and do you have a copy of the waiver she makes people sign before a reading or studio session?

That would be really nice to post.
 
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Did Randi ever get back to Larry King? And was Randi's emergency surgery earlier this year in any way related to the left ventricle of his heart?

It was the right ventricle.
 
I think a lawsuit would be interesting. You could ask that she demonstrate her power in a controlled environment and, well, there you go.

A lawsuit would be marvelous publicity; I'd be willing to send a few $$ for the defence. Let's see if she dares; it'd be rather embarrassing if she lost having failed to predict the outcome, wouldn't it?
 
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Perhaps in a future commentary Randi can give his assessment of whether Sylvia's September 2001 on-the-air diagnosis of his heart condition was at all accurate or completely off-the-mark.

He said so at that moment. Something like "Sylvia, I'm 70(plus) years old. If something doesn't go wrong with my heart I'd be very much surprised."
 
Well, I have to thank her for one thing: I got to randi.org because I was reading about her, after having read a WONDERFUL series of articles about psychics and how they prey on families of missing children at the Project Jason website. I can't post urls, but you can google for Project Jason, and find Kelly's series of articles there.

Good luck!!!!
C
 

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