James Randi shows how these leeches prey on others misfortune. What is worse:
- Thinking your missing child may be dead
- Being told, incorrectly, he is by a Psychic
Psychics don’t speak with the dead, they can’t even tell who is dead!
ANOTHER FABULOUS FAILURE - James Randi's Swift - January 19, 2007
Back in February, 2003, “psychics” Sylvia Browne and James Van Praagh were consulted by the parents of missing 11-year-old Shawn Hornbeck – Pam and Craig Akers. That young man just recently turned up – very much alive and well, in rather sharp disagreement with the prognostications of the humbug artists...UPDATE 23–01–2007: Phil Plait, has a wonderful post on Bad Astronomy with an Anderson Cooper spot about the case including comment from James Randi.
Bad Astronomy Blog » Sylvia Brown is a big giant evil fraud
But you knew that, right? Sylvia Brown claims to be a psychic, but she is actually a fraud, and a horrifyingly evil one at that… (cont)
