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

AdMan said:
I would say it's because this is a skeptics' forum and SB has been a subject of discussion for a long time. I don't think anyone really thinks the brothers are any better than Browne--it's just relatively little is known about the case so far.
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^This.
 
AdMan said:
I would say it's because this is a skeptics' forum and SB has been a subject of discussion for a long time. I don't think anyone really thinks the brothers are any better than Browne--it's just relatively little is known about the case so far.

And yes, having just this one thread doesn't help.
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It was two threads. One of them (the Browne one) was a duplicate of a thread in General Scepticism. Instead of merging these two, the mods merged the two in this subforum, adding the one about the case itself to the one about Browne, who is really a different topic. And no they won't reconsider because I asked them.

I'm also narked that Browne is being treated as the villain in this thread. She's a side-issue, or at least a different issue. These three kidnappers, slavers and very possibly child-murderers are the villains.

At least five pregnancies is the report, with only one surviving child. What happened when these women went into labour?

Rolfe.
 
RSLancastr said:
:)

...and more than just the public - I was contacted by a journalist who is writing a piece about Browne' involvement in the case for The Gaurdian (UK) who wants an interview.
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RSLancastr, I'm 100% confident :) Sylvia Browne is a fake.

Really, I am sure.

But, I'm curious if you know of any missing person's cases where she knew something SPECIFIC and UNIQUE that she could not have possibly known?

Again, I am not asking because I think she is real...I don't... I am just curious how she ended up being involved in so many of these types of cases when she is clearly a fake.

For example, was there one case where she stumbled on a big hit and others thought she could repeat it and that's why they kept asking her help?

Or, did people take broad statements as hits, or unwittingly give her information etc.

Or did people just believe she could help simply because she claimed that she could?
 
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Robin1 said:
RSLancastr, I'm 100% confident :) Sylvia Browne is a fake.
Really, I am sure.
But, I'm curious if you know of any missing person's cases where she knew something specific and unique that she could not have possibly known?
Again, I am not asking because I think she is real...I don't... I am just curious how she ended up being involved in so many of these types of cases when she is clearly a fake.
For example, was there one case where she stumbled on a big hit and others thought she could repeat it and that's why they kept asking her help?
Or did people just believe she could help simply because she claimed that she could?
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Good question. I have some curiosity about how her "fame" began, and if she had some early, lucky, guesses?
 
jond said:
And on Yahoo!
http://gma.yahoo.com/psychic-said-a...rry-found-212849667--abc-news-topstories.html
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Thanks, that answered the question I was going to post.

rowne did not return phone calls seeking comment today by ABC News. The Montel Williams show, through syndicator CBS, also did not return calls for comment. The show no longer airs new episodes.
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What cowards. Can't even express how happy she is to be wrong in this (and every) case. The media should jump down Montel's throat as well for giving this scum a stage.

As for the brother's it get creepier and creepier. One bad apple is something but 3 brother's all involved is something else.
 
AdMan said:
Randi has weighed in:

http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/2113-yet-another-sylvia-browne-fiasco.html
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Reposted this to facebook. Not to take away from 3 evil pigs but this is an excellent way to point out the damage psychics can do.

I can't tell you the number of times I have laid out the arguments against astrology, mediums, ghosts, and psychics only to hear a dispassionate believer say, "Even if it isn't real it doesn't do any harm." Well yes this **** does to harm and here is the proof. It's fresh in people's minds, it's horrific, and Sylvia brown is a fraud.
 
The BBC has this to say
"... There is an online backlash against self-proclaimed psychic Sylvia Browne, who in 2004 told Ms Berry's mother, Louwana Miller, on TV her daughter was dead and her last words were "goodbye, mom, I love you". Ms Miller died in 2006 of heart failure, aged 43"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22459433

The more mentions, the better.
 
The comments from her deluded and semiliterate followers on her facebook page continue to make me want to puke.
 
Reno said:
The comments from her deluded and semiliterate followers on her facebook page continue to make me want to puke.
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you and me both. It never fails, no matter what evidence that get they blindly ignore it.
 
Hold out for six figures Robert. :D I congratulate you on your accomplishments.
 
Yeah, she came on her Facebook with a very vapid and cloying response. Her defenders are saying that the media and the people who are angry have "no lives" and just want fame and attention. Whatever the hell that really means. I have never really understood the need these past fifteen years or so to remark that people who disagree with someone who is a staunch believer or supporter in something has "no life." ???

*sigh*

Seems to me like Sylvia is trying to make her own "life" better with her god response and the "I hope I'm wrong" garbage.
 
Don't worry, the Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia project is monitoring the page for accuracy as well as we can.
 
RSLancastr said:
:)

...and more than just the public - I was contacted by a journalist who is writing a piece about Browne' involvement in the case for The Gaurdian (UK) who wants an interview.
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Glad to hear your hard work is leading to some media attention.
 
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