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Sylvia Browne cures leukemia?

blutoski said:
My impression is that one of the reasons she restructured her organization as a church is to be exempt from certain categories of fraud. "Practicing medicine without a license" becomes "faith healing."
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Please tell me you're kidding. She actually has her group designated as a church now?

So not only does she get away with her b.s. claims scot-free, but her organization no longer has to pay taxes, either!

This is how $cientology started to really take off, folks...

She's a double douchebag :mad:
 
Zep said:
As far as I can make out from the AZ Ombudsman's site, he can only act on complaints against state institutions or entities. That is, not against private business operations.
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I meant the newspaper's ombudsman. Bad reporting and credulously parroting a single sourced isn't illegal, or Judith Miller would be in jail.
 
godless dave said:
I meant the newspaper's ombudsman. Bad reporting and credulously parroting a single sourced isn't illegal, or Judith Miller would be in jail.
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Ah, I see what you mean. In which case, file a complaint any way you can. Although reporting crap is not necessarily the same as crap reporting.
 
One small blow against Sylvia Browne and psychic scumbags everywhere and a win for skepticism & critical thinking today. While I was visiting my wife's family, during dinner someone brought up the Clawed & Smoking One - I then explained how she is a charlatan, a con artist, and that all supposed psychic phenomena that we've seen to date are basically just parlor tricks.

In the course of the discussion, I got to educate those present about cold reading and how many in the media are in cahoots with folks like Sylvia Browne, John Edward, etc - such as Montel Williams and Larry King.

To top it all off, I whipped out my laptop and showed them the YouTube clip of the now infamous debunking of Browne in regards to the Shawn Hornbeck incident...



The end result was quite satisfactory: people were thoroughly disgusted with her, with more than one expressing the sentiment that such psychics and the uncritical media attention they receive were, and I quote, "dangerous".

Mark one up for our side :D
 
Document everything.

Learn about the actual claims.

Yes, that sometimes means we have to give money to psychics. Sometimes, it pays off, big time.
 
Here's new uncritical promo in a paper:

Famed psychic to perform at Ferguson Center
BY LAURA GEE | Daily Press
8:45 AM EST, February 10, 2009

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Tickets for the 7 p.m. performance go on sale at 10 a.m. Monday at the box office, at all Ticketmaster outlets, and by phone at 671-8100. Seats in the front four rows will sell for $97 apiece. Other tickets are $47, $57 and $67.

Browne is a spiritual leader, psychic, author, lecturer and researcher in parapsychology. She has assisted police departments around the country in cases of missing children and other cases.

Browne was a weekly guest on the "Montel Williams Show" where she demonstrated, and discussed, her psychic abilities, and she has been on "Larry King Live" and "Unsolved Mysteries."
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Interesting, how has she "assisted police"?
 
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