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Bogus credentials on Noreen Renier website now 2 decades old

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Psychic actress Noreen Renier turned 85 years old on January 16, 2022. Now a second anniversary has just passed as of February 1st. A blitz in bogus background credentials and exaggerations ruptured across the internet two decades ago this month. That blitz evolved into false claims Noreen Renier has acknowledged are false, but she's kept on her personal and business website for now two decades.

The public website Global Net Research registered in Nobby Beach, Queensland, Australia, updated these concerns last week at https://www.globalnetresearch.com/findings.html . Some of the phrases and material on the Global Net Research website were originally posted by myself on a now discontinued website in 2005 and 2006. Such references are accurately replicated. The January 2022 Global Net Research website posting notes: "Noreen Renier's personal web site has claimed for almost two decades [as of 2022] that she's an “adjunct faculty member” and was given “teaching appointments” for teaching accredited courses at colleges and universities. See https://noreenrenier.com/services/academic.htm

Yet among the many colleges and universities she lists as of January 18, 2022 none agrees that she is sanctioned or ever has been sanctioned as an “adjunct faculty member”. Those disputing her claims of being an "adjunct faculty member" on her public website include the University of Virginia, the University of Florida, the University of Delaware, Rollins College, and every other accredited institution she lists as of January 18, 2022.

And though she briefly over several nights hosted a community 'psychic workshop' using an empty classroom at the University of Virginia it had nothing to do with regular accredited courses. She shared the classroom on a week night when a Boy Scout group and a receipe swapping club were not using it.

In fact GNR investigators found an article published on March 21, 1982 by the Lynchburg, Virginia 'Daily Advance' newspaper that quotes her as saying she was fired from the University of Virginia. One former authentic University of Virginia faculty member recalled that her use of the 'free' classroom at nights was ended because she was falsely claiming to the public that she was a faculty member.

Why after claiming in 1982 that she was fired from the University of Virginia did she later begin claiming she had a teaching appointment at the university and was an "adjunct faculty member"? The Office of Human Resources at Santa Fe Community College [in Gainesville, Florida] also stated she has never been a "adjunct faculty member" as she lists herself on her website. They too have repeatedly asked her to remove the listing from her web site since 2006. Nor has Noreen Renier ever provided even a single college or university where she's actually taught an accredited course or been sanctioned at an accredited college or university as a adjunct faculty member. Thus, every single academic institution she names on her website [as of January 18, 2022} has previously indicated her claims of being an "adjunct faculty member" are untrue or "deceptive" or both.

While on the stand before the federal judge in the Eastern District Court of Tennessee she testified [page 69 of the court transcript] to the following:

Renier: “Fraudulent claims. I would like to know what fraudulent claims I made. Questionable background credentials and current on-going investigations. No one is investigating me for fraud or anything else. . .”

Question from attorney [under cross examination]: . . .You did not make fraudulent claims involving police agencies? That is what the statement says.

Answer: Not to my knowledge, no, sir.

Question: Are you saying that you do not have questionable background credentials?

Answer: No, sir, I have a good background.

[And in a follow-up question:]

Question: Now, Ms. Renier, you have stated that you taught at the University of Virginia? . . .But you are not on the faculty, is that correct?

Answer: I am not an adjunct faculty member, no."

It amazes me (Sherlock = John Merrell) that this has actually now continued for decades. As the Global Net Research posting notes "...by her own admission and testimony she was instead a 'fired' woman who briefly offered unaccredited nighttime discussions in unused classrooms. Yet more than 30 years after admitting in court she was never an adjunct faculty member at the University of Virginia, and decades after the University of Virginia asked her to halt her claim of being an adjunct faculty member, her January 2022 website continues with the deception that she was a "adjunct faculty member" at the University. ...it has now [been] 40 years since actress Noreen Renier claimed she was fired from the University of Virgina. Of course since she was never actually a faculty member she wasn't really fired. Rather --- though she obviously didn't wish to admit it --- she simpy had her free unused classroom taken away by the University of Virgina. Why? Noreen Renier was literally locked-out of using an empty classroom in the evenings because she wouldn't stop lying that she was an official adjunct faculty member at the University of Virginia. ...The Boy Scouts never claimed their use of the same free evening classroom was a 'Teaching Appointment' from the University nor that they were 'Adjunct Faculty members' [and] as a further example, in a State of Florida court in 1992 she was asked while under oath the following:

Question: You’ve said you teach, as well as work. Where do you teach, ma’am?

Answer: Rollins College.

Question: That’s here in Winter Park?

Answer: Yes, sir.

Question: How long have you been so employed, ma’am?

Answer: Five years.

Question: Do you have a title there?

Answer: I just teach.

Question: Are you a member of the faculty?

Answer: No.

Question: What do you teach?

Answer: ESP.

Question: Is it a course offered by Rollins College?

Answer: It was a course that was involved in the non-credit division."

But upon checking today (February 1, 2022) Noreen Renier's website https://noreenrenier.com/services/academic.htm continues to post a list of "teaching appointments" and the same --- and more --- colleges and universities where she was an adjunct faculty member.

At 85 years old I'd suggest she cleans up her website and posts the truth.
 
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Sherlock said:
But upon checking today (February 1, 2022) Noreen Renier's website https://noreenrenier.com/services/academic.htm continues to post a list of "teaching appointments" and the same --- and more --- colleges and universities where she was an adjunct faculty member.

At 85 years old I'd suggest she cleans up her website and posts the truth.
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I agree that she should try to post only correct information on her website.

Perhaps you should e-mail her about this (I saw the e-mail address noreen04@me.com on her website, she also posted a phone number), you could perhaps also mention this new thread that you just started (she has already posted on this forum, hasn't she?).

Regarding calling Noreen Renier a "psychic actress", I think it is difficult for you to be completely sure that no extra-sensory perception has taken place.

Perhaps you should rather call her a "so-called psychic detective" or a "self-described psychic detective".
 
Noreen Renier, psychic actress

Among the readers of this forum there are some who apparently keep her up-to-date on newer postings. I suspect she'll get the word if she hasn't already.

While I haven't spoken or directly contacted her for years she occasionally sends emails, one as recently as January 5, 2022. I have long ceased responding. As long as she avoids correcting her claims --- and in this case her website --- there is no need. Unless she can cite something relevant that would change my mind.

After a very long time ---nearly 4 decades --- and uncovering her history as a professional actress on stage and in night clubs, I believe psychic actress is very appropriate.
 
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Person who has claimed to have psychic powers for years has been lying about other **** for years too?

I am shocked to my very core.

<---See this? That's my shocked face.
 
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Carlotta said:
Raises hand. Because this is exactly the kind of fraud the original jref was started to expose? : con2 :
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The JREF? Sure. And I would argue they ultimately failed.

The JREF Forums? Not so much. What exactly does Sherlock expect the ISF to do with this? Expose Renier? How? To what purpose?
 
Lord. She is 85 years old. What is the next phase of this, defacing her gravesite and taunting her children? Like, at what point do we let these things go?
 
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If she's not dead yet, and even after, if she maintains some kind of reputation or credence based on fake credentials, then yes never. And though I think it's kind of spurious to worry about the fake credentials of someone many of us think is a fake anyway, I think that's just as true, if not more so, if one believes in that stuff. Even dead people leave books, articles, acolytes and believers, and even if you think her powers are bogus, it does not make bogus credentials better.
 
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If she's not dead yet, and even after, if she maintains some kind of reputation or credence based on fake credentials, then yes never. And though I think it's kind of spurious to worry about the fake credentials of someone many of us think is a fake anyway, I think that's just as true, if not more so, if one believes in that stuff. Even dead people leave books, articles, acolytes and believers, and even if you think her powers are bogus, it does not make bogus credentials better.
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I just can't agree with the endorsement of the criticism, in this case. The level of vitriol over such trivial matters is incredible. It is literally hounding someone to the grave.

You have to wonder about the agenda of the OP, based on this specific attack on a little-known figure.
 
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I just can't agree with the endorsement of the criticism, in this case. The level of vitriol over such trivial matters is incredible. It is literally hounding someone to the grave.

You have to wonder about the agenda of the OP, based on this specific attack on a little-known figure.
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I think if someone involved in an endeavor or trade you value were to flourish in it based on false credentials you'd feel different about it. It's trivial to you and to me, because I imagine we share a belief that the entire psychic business is bogus, but obviously it isn't to some.

The whole thread seems a bit odd, though it appears Sherlock hopes that Renier will see it when someone not specified gets in touch. That seems like a pretty tenuous reason, but it's not nothing.

REnier is old but still maintains a web site and still posts the bogus credentials, so until she retires and pulls it down, I don't think you can say we're hounding a poor little old whatever to the grave.

ETA I looked a little at her web site and she claims all sorts of stuff, including "services" that are pretty clearly fraudulent and probably enrich her at public expense. I don't see any harm in any effort to bring her down, even if it's done by people whose own beliefs are dodgy. I have no qualm about hounding her right to her grave. Hand me the shovel.
 
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I just can't agree with the endorsement of the criticism, in this case. The level of vitriol over such trivial matters is incredible. It is literally hounding someone to the grave.

You have to wonder about the agenda of the OP, based on this specific attack on a little-known figure.
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Trivial matters? She makes money out of despair and desperation. She targets the vulnerable. She deserves every bit of vitriol thrown her way.
 
I am regularly contacted by people who have fallen to her exaggerated claims and credentials. Many over the years have paid her $1000 and more for typically about 45 minutes over the phone. None who have contacted me (and other skeptical researchers) have ever received useful information to locate missing family members from her thoughts. Much of her earnings has come from payments made to locate missing children. Updated posts such as this one every few years are often noted by those just checking out her background in search engines. I don't expect forum members to do anything but pass along the site information should they ever be asked about Noreen Renier. She has indeed checked into this forum before and may do so again, though at 85 years old she may be in such poor health she cannot respond.
 
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It never ceases to amaze how some people are just so not interested in a topic that they just have to post about how not interested they are. Her name is still known in some circles and so it needs to keep being exposed. A new post letting us know that at 85 she is still lying to masses with no conscious is important. Hopefully if someone hears a blip about her and googles they will fall upon this place. Rlancaster and the stopsylvia website is what brought me here and changed my thinking.
 
I suppose it depends on how you look at things, but the idea that we should lay off because she's old is reminiscent of some people's attitude toward old war criminals and genocides who are hunted down. Give the poor old guy a break, he's harmless now.

Imagine if you were a young person, and committed a terrible crime, and the authorities said something along the lines of "We've got you cold, and if convicted you'd get a life sentence, but for now we'll let you go and you can live a normal life, if you promise to plead guilty when you're 85." Who in his right mind would turn this down?

Here's a person who has, it seems, prospered and fed on the gullible public for years and years, whose false credentials were exposed decades ago. She's gotten a hell of a good deal.
 
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This seems like a pointless grudge and a long time to hold it. Why are you telling us, anyway?
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"This seems like a pointless grudge and a long time to hold it."

ISF member Sherlock (John Merrell) should decide when (if ever) he should let this go. I can see two parts to letting go: 1) If Sherlock feels his work has held Noreen Renier (and others?) accountable, and there were consequences for harm caused by Renier's false, misleading, inaccurate, and/or fabricated "psychic" statements & actions, and 2) Sherlock is in a place where he can say, "I'm okay," and is at peace and accepts the outcome of this lengthy process.

How can you say this is a "pointless grudge"? It's important to keep the public informed with readily-accessible, honest, accurate, truthful, and putting-things-into-context, information.

"Why are you telling us, anyway?"

I get the sense Sherlock tells us because Renier has a website that still—years after wrongs were exposed—contains significant, dishonest information: there are instances of false, misleading, inaccurate, and fabricated claims. People can be harmed by those false, misleading, inaccurate, and fabricated claims. Renier and those who give a platform to such claims, like tv shows or news segments, typically face little-to-no consequences, and typically Renier and others are not held accountable for those misrepresentations.

Sherlock's work (and Gary Posner, M.D., and others), should exist in perpetuity so people can make informed decisions and have an understanding of fact.
 
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