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Merged Sylvia Browne: "You'll meet her (Amanda Berry) in heaven" / Sylvia Browne wrong again

ABC NEWS chimes in with:

Psychic Who Said Amanda Berry Was Dead Silent After Berry Is Found Alive

http://abcnews.go.com/US/amanda-berrys-mom-told-pyschic-sylvia-browne-berry/story?id=19126853

By COLLEEN CURRY
May 7, 2013

A year after Amanda Berry disappeared in Cleveland, her mother appeared on "The Montel Williams Show" to speak to a psychic about what happened to her daughter.

Psychic Sylvia Browne, who has made a career of televised psychic readings, told Louwanna Miller on a 2004 episode of the show that her daughter was dead, causing Miller to break down in tears on the show's set.

"She's not alive, honey," Browne told Miller on the show, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper. "Your daughter's not the kind who wouldn't call."
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Sign away! 150 signatures and it becomes visable and searchable on the whitehouse.gov site. And maybe we can push some of those disgustingly racist ones off the page.
 
dudalb said:
Oh, we will hit Browne hard on this. Don't worry about that.
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Honesty, she should be shot. Shot right square in the forehead at point blank range by someone whose life was ruined by her running her big fat attention whoring mouth. Then the shooter can ask afterward, "Well, why didn't she see THAT coming?", then burst into maniacal laughter or something. That'd be a quality end to her story right there.
 
Oh well, go argue it somewhere else, I don't care. Just thought it was worth flagging up. The contract thing wasn't actioned.

Rolfe.
 
JoeTheJuggler said:
Similarly, her supporters tried to claim her coming up with "Michael" was a hit in the Shawn Hornbeck reading. I pointed out there too that her reading was providing the name of the murderer of Shawn. Since Shawn was still alive (there was no murder and no murderer), there's no logical way to claim she got the name of the murderer right.
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I'm sure she just got her wires crossed again. :rolleyes:
 
Once again wrong, once again shows how low she is. The fact her fans are turning on her is good.

More importantly, I'm glad the four of them are safe, yet sadend that there may be more in the back yard
 
I believe fully in free speech, but I also believe it's appropriate to outlaw things like selling snake oil and empty iPad boxes as being iPads, and I believe we have plenty of laws on the books which outlaw a whole host of scams.

Psychic readings are a scam, pure and simple. Why can't we outlaw them?
 
The connection is in the guardian today in the UK

Couldn't be more pleased that the UK press are picking it up
 
Rolfe said:
Oh well, go argue it somewhere else, I don't care. Just thought it was worth flagging up. The contract thing wasn't actioned.

Rolfe.
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I don't care about it either, I was more struck by the humorous contrast between a contract killing and your choice of phrasing.
 
An interesting comment on just what effect Browne's reading had can be seen in this ABC news article.

The people who came to Amanda Berry's rescue didn't believe her when she identified herself as Cleveland's best known missing person, certain that Amanda Berry had died years ago.


Berry's shocking appearance at the door of a Cleveland house occurred as Aurora Martin was sitting on her porch with a friend. Charles Ramsey was inside his house eating a McDonald's meal when the woman across the street began kicking at the door and screaming for help.


"I'm Amanda Berry! I'm Amanda Berry!" the woman shouted.


"No, Amanda Berry died years ago," Martin told her.
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http://abcnews.go.com/US/amanda-berrys-rescuers-doubtful-dead/story?id=19125980
 
akama1 said:
Once again wrong, once again shows how low she is. The fact her fans are turning on her is good.
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Are those "fans" posting on her Facebook page, or people who never believed her to begin with? Seems to me the few fans responding are standing up for her.
 
Skeptic Tank said:
I believe fully in free speech, but I also believe it's appropriate to outlaw things like selling snake oil and empty iPad boxes as being iPads, and I believe we have plenty of laws on the books which outlaw a whole host of scams.

Psychic readings are a scam, pure and simple. Why can't we outlaw them?
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It's that church/state thing. Imagine a judge jailing someone who accepted a fee for telling the mark that his loved one is in heaven.

How do you distinguish Sylvia's claims of the unknown from promises of happiness, healing and afterlife made by the Pope? Churches take in money and offer spiritually based solutions in return. Most churches' techniques aren't quite as crass as Sylvia's approach.

ETA: Selling products unfit for use is covered under law, but offering an opinion when requested, however ill conceived, is merely speech. The way it should work is that the general public should be educated by schools and experienced adult guardians to use factual information to combat such nonsense. It seems that "proud ignorance" is the rule in some cultures, often religious ones.
 
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